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**It Is Not Wrong Because 99 Percent Don't Do it**
### An Idea isn't Wrong Because 99 Percent don't Accept it

It is very important to have confidence in your ideas and to have a fact based approach to life and knowledge. So, sometimes you find you have ideas that the majority or others don't like or accept or believe.
It is very important to have confidence in your ideas and to have a fact-based approach to life and knowledge, even if the majority of people doesn't like or accept your ideas.

And the way I look at it is if as long as you aren't doing any damage to others or it is damaging it is okay for you to have those ideas. In fact there are a lot of people that died and suffered in the past for you to be able to have the freedom to have those ideas so you might as well honor them and really go with it.
The way I look at it, as long as your ideas don't harm others, you should pursue those ideas. A lot of people have died and suffered in the past for you to be able to enjoy freedom of thought and expression, so you might as well honour them and persevere with your ideas.

A good example for me is a couple of number of years a good friend of mine recommended a book called, "Born to Run" and he was walking barefoot, I read it, I really liked it, I looked at the science behind it and I realized it was all sound, in fact I tried it and I liked it.
A good example for me is, a number of years ago a good friend of mine recommended a book called, "Born to Run". As a result of reading the book, my friend had started to walk barefoot. I read the book, I really liked it, I looked at the science behind it, and realized the science had a sound basis. I tried walking barefoot too, and I enjoyed it.

So basically I started walking barefoot and now it has been four years I have been walking barefoot as much as I can on the road, on airports, through the city, on restaurants and it is great. Initially it was definitely a social element that you had to go through it but there was this idea that this is healthy, this is good, I like it, why shouldn't I be able to do it?
I have now been walking barefoot for four years, and it's great. I go barefoot on the road, in airports, through the city, and in restaurants. Initially, there was definitely a social element that I had to negotiate, but what helped me to overcome any obstacles was the idea that walking barefoot was healthy, it was good for me, I enjoyed it, and why shouldn't I be able to do it?

And it is the same approach in code, if you have ideas or in business and you believe on those ideas you should be able to pursue it and you should continue knowing that basically most people will not understand where you are coming from. And in a way, sometimes you have the curse of knowledge where you have made a whole bunch of paradigm shifts that others haven't. So you have the situation where you basically are thinking in a different plane which is in a way where magic occurs and that is where all interesting things happen.
The same approach applies when working in code, or in business. If you have ideas, and you believe in those ideas, you should pursue them. You should persevere, even though you know most people will not understand where you are coming from. Sometimes you will have to deal with the curse of knowledge, where you have made a number of paradigm shifts, but the people around you haven't. You are thinking on a different plane, which is where magic occurs, and where all the interesting things happen.

So be confident with your ideas and just remember that it is a long game, there is the concept base, there is a lot of people that have the seven year work to have an overnight success or twenty years' work. Sometimes you need to work on something for ten, twenty, thirty years until it actually becomes something that is valuable and usable by more people. But then that is life.
So, be confident in your ideas and remember you are playing a long game. There are a lot of people who pursued their ideas for many years before enjoying an 'overnight success'. Sometimes you need to work on something for ten, twenty, even thirty years before it becomes something that is valuable and usable by more people. But that's life.