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In the past I would say yes. The best work of my life, nobody around me understood. I was crazy while doing it against everybody around me. When you succeed it
by Htsthbjig 11y ago
In the past I would say yes. The best work of my life, nobody around me understood. I was crazy while doing it against everybody around me. When you succeed it is obvious in retrospect, but while doing it you doubt in yourself if everybody doubts about you because they can't see what does not exist yet like you do.
But at the time I didn't know what I know now: That there is other crazy people out there, and you have to find them. With Internet is not that hard.
Hollywood, Silicon Valley or even YC is all about putting crazy enough creative people together so saying something like "I am going to change the world" sounds totally normal.
- seanmcdirmid 11y agoTwo crazy geniuses walk into a bar; minutes later they both storm out claiming the other is a crazy crackpot. Two people are not similar just because they are both different. Ya, we can find allies, but these relationships are fragile and often limited. The problem is that we often cannot find common ground to explore our ideas together (though we can and do offer moral support). When working with other creatives, someone or all of them have to tone it down a few notches to get anything done at all. Studio models attempt to deal with this by providing a decent balance between independence and review.