Crazy New Ideas
19 hours ago
- Do not dismiss implausible-sounding ideas from reasonable domain experts; history shows such ideas often lead to major breakthroughs.
- The implausibility of an idea from an expert shifts from evidence of incompetence to evidence of potential significance.
- People are overly conservative due to the grip of the current paradigm, making new ideas undervalued initially.
- The wise response is to ask questions rather than make statements, as either the expert or you may be mistaken.
- Reasons for dismissing new ideas include envy, the easy path to seeming sophisticated, vested interests, factionalism, and the pervasiveness of the current paradigm.
- Learn to recognize new ideas in their feeble early form by studying history and observing current expert proposals.
- Encouraging rather than attacking such ideas benefits both the proposer and yourself.