Disregard others is a high risk high reward move. And doing it too much would ruin your career. Most of the time, listening to others can avoid your stumbling

Disregard others is a high risk high reward move. And doing it too much would ruin your career. Most of the time, listening to others can avoid your stumbling into dead ends, reinventing the wheel, or losing touch with important problems. Of course, the biggest breakthroughs will often come from disregarding the existing paradigm, but the art is both believing in the current theory (so you can make progress within it) and disbelieving that it is the full story (so you can make the breakthroughs).