Paul Graham says, in one of his essays (emphasis mine)
"....Why do you need other people? Can't you just think of new ideas yourself? The empirical answer is: no. Even Einstein needed people to bounce ideas off. Ideas get developed in the process of explaining them to the right kind of person. You need that resistance, just as a carver needs the resistance of the wood.
In my experience, this need for "friendly resistance" extends to far more than creating startups. Every time you have a new idea, you need people you can bounce it off. To get any real benefit out of this process you need people with a complex combination of characteristics.
They should
- have firm (but not rigid) opinions on their own
- have logical reasons for those beliefs and be able to articulate them clearly
- are driven by ideas and not ideology
- not attach their egos to their opinions.
- be willing to concede a valid argument even if it forces them to possibly re-examine their beliefs
- know how to listen
clipped from ravimohan.blogspot.com
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