Comments on: #998-Quit Thinking You Won’t Have Detractors http://www.quitbit.com/detractors 1000 Ideas worth Quitting Thu, 03 Jun 2010 13:19:49 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Quit caring what idea vampires think so they don't suck the life out of your ideas http://www.quitbit.com/detractors/comment-page-1#comment-54 Quit caring what idea vampires think so they don't suck the life out of your ideas Fri, 06 Nov 2009 12:12:25 +0000 http://www.quitbit.com/?p=28#comment-54 [...] I mentioned in an earlier post, Quit Thinking you Won’t have Detractors, idea vampires are everywhere and have existed since the dawn of [...] [...] I mentioned in an earlier post, Quit Thinking you Won’t have Detractors, idea vampires are everywhere and have existed since the dawn of [...]

]]> By: Dean Dwyer http://www.quitbit.com/detractors/comment-page-1#comment-21 Dean Dwyer Sun, 25 Oct 2009 00:37:16 +0000 http://www.quitbit.com/?p=28#comment-21 Hey Sue, great comment. I was referring to the latter, but I do think people need to tread carefully with an idea in the early stages. An idea is like a child. We need to protect it early on until it can fend for itself. Sometimes we share ideas too soon, before we are really prepared to deal with the emotional impact of what others have to say about it. Do we share it with only those who will praise it only...no...I think as you said, we share it when we know what we want. No one knew what I was working on until I launched this blog 2 days ago. My biggest challenge was to be 100% sure this was an idea I wanted to pursue (it is) so I would not be effected by the negative nutcases when those times come (and they will come). Hey Sue, great comment. I was referring to the latter, but I do think people need to tread carefully with an idea in the early stages. An idea is like a child. We need to protect it early on until it can fend for itself. Sometimes we share ideas too soon, before we are really prepared to deal with the emotional impact of what others have to say about it.

Do we share it with only those who will praise it only…no…I think as you said, we share it when we know what we want. No one knew what I was working on until I launched this blog 2 days ago. My biggest challenge was to be 100% sure this was an idea I wanted to pursue (it is) so I would not be effected by the negative nutcases when those times come (and they will come).

]]> By: Sue http://www.quitbit.com/detractors/comment-page-1#comment-18 Sue Sat, 24 Oct 2009 19:51:13 +0000 http://www.quitbit.com/?p=28#comment-18 Okay so...this post has been bothering me since I read it...which was about a half hour ago. So what you're saying is that we should surround ourselves only with those who agree with us or those who will go along with our ideas? Where's the challenge in that? I think that if I have an idea and someone challenges it, maybe it wasn't a good idea to begin with or maybe it was but it's slightly flawed and needs some re-working. I consider myself to be fairly strong-willed and if I truly believe that I'm doing the right thing, I will do it regardless of what anyone says. But if I allow someone to change my mind, maybe I just wasn't that committed to the idea in the first place (or maybe I'm not ready yet) and maybe I really wanted someone to tell me it was a bad idea just to confirm it for me. But...if what you're really saying here is to eliminate the negative nellies from your life, I completely agree with you. :-) I know several negative nellies that will have a bad word to say no matter what and those people definitely deserve to be ignored or sent to voicemail. But...if you can listen with an open mind and provide me with truly meaningful and well thought out arguments, then I'm all ears! And...maybe I'm just way off base on what you were trying to say...but that's another post isn't it? lol... Okay so…this post has been bothering me since I read it…which was about a half hour ago. So what you’re saying is that we should surround ourselves only with those who agree with us or those who will go along with our ideas? Where’s the challenge in that? I think that if I have an idea and someone challenges it, maybe it wasn’t a good idea to begin with or maybe it was but it’s slightly flawed and needs some re-working. I consider myself to be fairly strong-willed and if I truly believe that I’m doing the right thing, I will do it regardless of what anyone says. But if I allow someone to change my mind, maybe I just wasn’t that committed to the idea in the first place (or maybe I’m not ready yet) and maybe I really wanted someone to tell me it was a bad idea just to confirm it for me. But…if what you’re really saying here is to eliminate the negative nellies from your life, I completely agree with you. :-) I know several negative nellies that will have a bad word to say no matter what and those people definitely deserve to be ignored or sent to voicemail. But…if you can listen with an open mind and provide me with truly meaningful and well thought out arguments, then I’m all ears!
And…maybe I’m just way off base on what you were trying to say…but that’s another post isn’t it? lol…

]]> By: Quit pretending you don’t know what you really want to do http://www.quitbit.com/detractors/comment-page-1#comment-4 Quit pretending you don’t know what you really want to do Wed, 21 Oct 2009 12:00:55 +0000 http://www.quitbit.com/?p=28#comment-4 [...] will have your detractors, but who cares.  We have let these type of people define us our whole lives.  It’s time to [...] [...] will have your detractors, but who cares.  We have let these type of people define us our whole lives.  It’s time to [...]

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