People are biased against creative ideas, studies find
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Re: People are biased against creative ideas, studies find
#42It is totally reasonable that people act like that. They already have experience in how they solve their daily problems. So beside being highly unlikely to work, new ideas also mean a cost of relearning old habits. This is a big cost and people don't want to do that. Actually we spent a lot of time and energy to not need to relearn our habits so often. Not having to pay this cost is luxury or maybe even goal of life…
Yes! Sadly most of the new "visionary", "creative" ideas people try to promulgate are, in fact, bad . Usually there's a reason things are done the way they are, and the complexities of the current system are hard to appreciate from the outside. So a bias against "creative" ideas may be entirely appropriate. Now, on the flip side, some creative ideas are awesome, and would be great, but no one knows about them, and ev…
Yeah it's really tedious to try to change something. It's a pitty people don't value the work you've put into getting something done at all. I also surprisingly saw, that people don't know how much trouble it is, because it tends to look so easy to get something great done.
Re: People are biased against creative ideas, studies find
#43Could this be another reason why 2nd mover in a field actually has an advantage, above being able to learn from the first mover mistakes?
The first in the market educates, and all but a few say "I don't want that, that's useless". Then a competitor arrives, and now the idea is no longer as creative, it is now somewhat familiar, and a much smaller leap for people to grasp.