How do you know if they disagree with you because its a good secret, or if they disagree with you because you have a shitty idea? This is a great question. So

How do you know if they disagree with you because its a good secret, or if they disagree with you because you have a shitty idea? This is a great question. So simple yet so difficult to answer. If we were to go about this systematically, the best way would be to write out the reasons behind your belief in this secret, and then compare your reasoning to smart people's. Human brains don't always get it right; sometimes (oftentimes) we possess incorrect or incomplete models of reality and are simply unable to or too slow to adapt. Listing out your reasoning is a way to expose these flaws whether in your logic or in theirs. Either the people who disagree or you yourself are missing some key information or insight. Maybe they are jaded or scared or risk-averse or never really took the time to fully think about the idea. That is probably the only systematic way. But, we must account for the importance of courage as well. It's impossible to be 100% sure of any society-changing secret, so also important is the guts to stick with your secret. Everyone could see through the emperor's new clothes but only one person dared to trust himself and risk saying something. Same as in life, many people have known secrets but they didn't risk following through with it. Again, it's impossible to be 100% sure of anything and we must account for luck. So say some people disagree with your secret and they peg the chance of success at 5%. Well, if you have some insight that they lack, maybe that quintuples your chance of success to 25%. It's not 100% but now your secret could be worth pursuing, even if you fail in the end!