At the beginning: The most valuable insights... Toward the end: So it's doubly important not to let yourself be discouraged by people who say there's not muc

At the beginning: The most valuable insights... Toward the end: So it's doubly important not to let yourself be discouraged by people who say there's not much new about something you've discovered. "Not much new" is a real achievement when you're talking about the most general ideas. Maybe if you keep going, you'll discover more. I really feel like Paul is conflating valuable and novel here. When you create something that solves someone's problem, who cares whether the ideas behind it are novel or not?