I think there is a massive difference between your own judgement of an idea and others&#x27; judgement of it.<p>The latter has to go through difficulties in expressing the idea and the justification of it, and in the understanding, by a different person, of those details.<p>I think the &quot;ideas are cheap&quot; &#x2F; &quot;good ideas seemed terrible&quot; thing is mostly from the perspective of <i>other people</i>.<p>If that&#x27;s true then individuals shouldn&#x27;t take it too seriously when it comes to their own ideas.