Many good ideas look bad at first.

I believe I am being confronted with this impossible task: making a perfect idea into a perfect creation . What I fail to recognise is that the idea only seems perfect precisely because it has no counterpart in reality .

Ideas can feel complete. It's only when you try to put them into words that you discover they're not. So if you never subject your ideas to that test, you'll not only never have fully formed ideas, but also never realize it.

—Paul Graham

I’ve noticed this subtle, sneaky, nearly undetectable pattern in myself where I’ll have an idea, and I’ll then say to myself: oh, that’s a great idea. I want to let it sit. I will write about it soon. And then another idea pops up, before I get the chance to write about that first idea. But this next idea is so compelling! And I want to write about... See more

SAM ALTMAN: Good ideas — actually, no, great ideas are fragile. Great ideas are easy to kill. An idea in its larval stage — all the best ideas when I first heard them sound bad. And all of us, myself included, are much more affected by what other people think of us and our ideas than we like to admit.

If you are just four people in your own door,

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