So let me get this straight... You declined the job to pursue your own projects, while concurrently thinking you were "bad at generating good startup ideas"? I

So let me get this straight... You declined the job to pursue your own projects, while concurrently thinking you were "bad at generating good startup ideas"? I might have missed something in there, because that doesn't make a whole lot of sense. You must have had some idea of what projects you wanted to pursue when you declined the job, right?