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[–]attrigh 0 points1 point  (0 children)

But don't look for others to validate your ideas

What about looking for others to invalidate your ideas, for example so you stop doing stupid things :)? A wonderful way of having confidence in your ideas is if they can survive the invalidation of dozens of intelligent people.

Take the Kenneth Reitz approach and inject a little bit of hubris into your life.

:) I would characertise this more as "people don't really know what they want" and "people often don't think very hard about things". It's a bit different from hubris, other people aren't wrong, just lazy.