Believe
Written on October 20th, 2021 by Ethersneaks
If you’ve got a big idea, the first step is to believe in it. If you don’t believe in it, why should anyone else? If you don’t believe in it may it’s not so great. That’s okay. You have to dig through a lot of dirt to strike oil, and you might have to dig through a lot of bad ideas before you find one that’s valuable. The important part is to keep searching until you find something that you believe in with confidence. Because now the genuine hard part starts. Convincing other people that it’s great. Most, if not all, great ideas were thoroughly trashed when presented.
Ignaz Semmelweis discovered that if doctors washed their hands, medical patients died less often. Back in the day, doctors would perform autopsies on dead patients and then put their hands all over the living. Ignaz noticed hand cleanliness reduced the mortality rate of patients. Doctors at the time found his suggestion that they were unclean downright offensive. Ignaz died in a mental institution well before anyone cared to listen to his great idea.
