[EricH]

Originally Posted by GeeTwo

At least for me, the key to this is learning to suppress the peer-pressure lesson which makes you ignore "stupid" ideas too early. Sometimes a "stupid" idea that doesn't let go is the key to a "genius" idea.

Funny, I had something like that today. Me to my lead: "I've got a stupid idea for [X project I won't go into]. If it works, it'll be great. If not, it's a stupid idea."

At last check, I'm putting 75% odds of it actually working as planned in "prototype" stage, assuming I get around to actually doing it. The proto-prototype stage went well...