Steve Wozniak

Maybe they don't get it because they can't imagine it, or maybe they don't get it because someone else has already told them what's useful or good, and what they heard doesn't include your idea.

Don't let these people bring you down.

Remember that they're just taking the point of view that matches whatever the popular cultural view of the moment is.

They only know what they're exposed to.

It's a type of prejudice, actually a type of prejudice that is absolutely against the spirit of invention.

But the world isn't black and white.

It's grayscale.

As an inventor, you have to see things in grayscale.

You need to be open.

You can't follow the crowd.

Forget the crowd.

And you need the kind of objectivity that makes you forget everything you've heard, clear the table, and do a factual study like a scientist would.

Second.

be slow to form an opinion, and hold it with the right grip.

Wozniak writes, you don't want to jump to conclusions, take a position too quickly, and then search for as much material as you can to support your side.

Who wants to waste time supporting a bad idea?

It's not worth it.

That way of being stuck in your ego.

You don't want to just come up with any excuse to support your way.

Engineers have an easier time than most people seeing and accepting the grayscale nature of the world.