- idea and rarity value
- Person A, who only rarely generates ideas, falsely believes that ideas have a high value.
- Person B, who generates a large number of ideas on a daily basis, believes that ideas themselves are not worth that much
- Resources (e.g., your time) to realize the idea are overwhelmingly inadequate
- Ideas without resources are of little value.
- Select from many ideas those that you value highly and devote your resources (time, etc.) to them.
- The idea chosen by B is of higher quality than the idea chosen by A because it was selected from a large number of candidates.
- B is better able to identify the quality of ideas than A because B has more experience in selecting from a large number of potential ideas.
- Common Stories
- A comes up with an idea and tells B that he thinks it has high value. For some reason, it is assumed that B will provide the resources to realize the idea.
- B discards most of the ideas that do not involve resources.
- A complains about his great idea being thrown away.
- If the person proposing the idea is also of the same type as B:
- The act of communicating an idea is about as “maybe it will help” as you can get.
- If you have an idea, tell it anyway.
- The other party is not expected to use the resources.
- I’m not so much complaining about being thrown out.
- The act of discarding ideas is something I do every day.
- So, if you are the type of person who proposes an idea and doesn’t resource it and complains about throwing out ideas, you are type A.
- Is this some sort of Dunning-Kruger effect?
B should show A how he is whisking away ideas on a daily basis. Indeed!
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