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You didn’t tell us what your vision is, and maybe the reasons why (which I agree can be or at least feel very justified) indicate what is so challenging and iso
by mw888 4y ago
You didn’t tell us what your vision is, and maybe the reasons why (which I agree can be or at least feel very justified) indicate what is so challenging and isolating.
If you are worried about people stealing your idea, but it took 2 solid years to flesh out and is a relatively unrecognized problem, then you might relax knowing that even if you inspire someone else to pursue your vision, you will be their de facto leader and teacher, not their victim of theft.
Of course maybe you don’t mention the vision because you are tired of getting shot down. I’m not going to say that that somehow means your idea must be flawed; I think most people’s conception of big issues is flawed, but if the issue you are tackling is uncommon and complicated, and tempts ridicule, then you have an unholy triad of poor feedback. How do you personally form priorities if this is true?
All in all it sounds like you could use some quality, thoughtful feedback, or even just someone to listen intently, but uncritically to your conceptions.
As for the other, more generic problems: If you can inspire others with your vision and allow them to hold you accountable to make progress then motivation, passion and meaning can come much more easily.
- samh748 4y agoHey thanks for the reply and insights. FYI I did link my vision with a footnote at the bottom of the post. It's a long read, that's why I didn't just state it outright.
- mw888 4y agoOh right my bad. Hopefully I still provided something helpful.
- samh748 4y agoYes it was great! In fact I did for a long time want to keep my vision a "secret", for exactly all the reasons you've stated! And even now, many of those points are still relevant. > even if you inspire someone else to pursue your vision, you will be their de facto leader and teacher This is good reassurance and encouragement. :) > most people’s conception of big issues is flawed, but if the issue you are tackling is uncommon and complicated, and tempts ridicule, then you have an unholy triad of poor feedback. How do you personally form priorities if this is true? Are you able to expand on this? I'm not sure if I'm completely understanding it. You mean "uncommon and complicated and tempts ridicule" as in if the idea itself isn't good right? I would say my vision is more a "big issue" type, but it's a bit in-between: some more critical-thinking people may dismiss it as "obvious", while less-critical people would think it's irrelevant or don't understand it. I think right now, I'm going to work on better articulating my vision, so that hopefully I can get more constructive feedback on it. Thank you so much for your feedback so far! If you have more after taking a look at my previous post, I would love to hear it! But it's a long read so I would understand if you don't. :)