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You should act on it! Your insight is important and valuable, but it’s just a starting point. Read some startup literature on validating problems. I recommend
by sthatipamala 5y ago
You should act on it! Your insight is important and valuable, but it’s just a starting point.
Read some startup literature on validating problems. I recommend The Mom Test. You will want to talk to people to understand their existing behavior, without imposing your vision on them.
Once you’ve elicited this from people, you will want to assess whether your conceptualization of the world was right. It might turn out that people were warring because it gives men something to feel manly about. Then your conflict resolution approach will have no effect.
If you have validated that the problem exists, then the journey starts. You will have to figure out how you’re going to deliver your solution, how to promote it such that your audience will be receptive. Etc etc. But start with problem validation and be prepared to kill your precious vision at the altar of truth.
You seem like an idealist. So let me say two things:
1. don’t reject startup advice or business advice. Whatever your noble vision of the world, it will need a delivery and distribution mechanism to spread it. That will look like business and marketing. If you’re averse to it because it is “impure” you will only hinder your efforts.
2. It doesn’t matter if the world is not as it “should be”. Let’s say people are building swords because they just like fighting and feeling manly. It doesn’t matter that there is a theoretically better way to resolve conflict. Accept the world as it is and be humbled. It is you who was wrong, not every other person in the world.