Airbnb sends along the following message to its users (my bold):
I am absurdly lucky even to be writing this email. Ten years ago we started Airbnb. Joe and I couldn’t pay rent, so we created the first AirBed & Breakfast and invited three people we’d never met to stay in our home. People said our idea would never work – “Strangers will never trust one another!” A decade later, people have checked into an Airbnb nearly 300 million times.
People told Mick Jagger that he couldn’t sing. He didn’t have the voice for rock and roll. Rodney Dangerfield was doing aluminum siding. He told people he was going to go back to comedy. “You are to old!” people told him. “Let it go”.
The times I made the most money in my life is when I was in the minority. When everyone told me how wrong I was or how this or that would not work. All traders should have a set of rules. One of my trading rules is this:
Being profitable usually means being in the minority.
People tend to reflect their failures in life onto others when they give advice. I don’t believe this is malicious in most cases, just the way most people work. There is nothing wrong with asking for advice. Just know who you are talking too. Always seek advice from successful people.
Conclusion
If you have an idea and everyone doesn’t laugh at you or tell you how wrong you are than you should reevaluate the idea.