Created: 2022-05-07 17:18
Ideas take time, and that time is mostly spend in validating them.
Our brains are amazingly capable of producing ideas after ideas. And those ideas come out raw and rough. Some of those are bad ones, not worth pursuing for whatever reason. For some we might be able to tell right away their are bad or not worth. For others it requires validation.
How to validate an idea
Thinking, duh!
Conversation
Sharing our ideas to others and testing them that way is one approach to validation.
There’s a risk here, others might not fully understand the idea the way we do, specially in the early stages when one isn’t able to fully explain them, and so they might discard it. Which could have the wrong influence on our validation of the idea. A false negative of sorts.
Self criticism
In the early stages of an idea, it’s better to do that validation exercises with our own self. By playing the role of the defender and the critic of the idea, and also providing the grounds for the discussion to happen. It’s hard and requires practices and training.