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The Quote of the Day Show | Daily Motivational Talks

742 | Stan Lee: “If You Have an Idea that You Genuinely Think is Good, Don’t Let Some Idiot Talk You Out of It.”

The Quote of the Day Show | Daily Motivational Talks

Sean Croxton

Mental Health, Health & Fitness, Business, Self-improvement, Entrepreneurship, Education

4.83.1K Ratings

🗓️ 23 September 2019

⏱️ 9 minutes

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Summary

The late comic book creator Stan Lee is on the show today to share the story of how Spiderman came to be, while providing an important reminder to only share your ideas with the right people, and ignore anyone who tries to talk you out of something that you know is great. Source: Stan Lee Keynote at the 2017 Graduation Ceremony (YouTube)

Transcript

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Yo today's QOD is if you have an idea that you genuinely think is good

0:05.9

Don't let some idiot talk you out of it. Here we go

0:30.0

Welcome back to the quarter of the day show I'm your host Sean Crox and a

0:39.4

Sean Crox and calm we've got the late comic book creator Stan Lee on the

0:44.1

show today and today Stan is talking about your ideas because so often we come

0:50.3

up with an idea it won't think it's a really good idea and then we share that

0:54.9

idea with somebody else and that somebody else will literally poop all over our

0:59.9

idea and tell us all the reasons why it's not going to work and then we give up

1:04.6

on the idea we have to stop doing that if you have an idea and you want to

1:08.7

share it with somebody who actually creates ideas share it with an idea person

1:14.2

share it with an entrepreneur who's actually going to support you and give you

1:17.9

real feedback on the idea but don't share your ideas with people who don't

1:24.5

create ideas here Stan I spend quite a lot of time writing a 25-page speech

1:33.6

that I could give you and as I looked at I said would I want to hear the speech

1:41.1

so I tore it up so I stand here now defenseless with nothing except to tell you I

1:50.8

think you're all great the fact that you're taking the courses you're taking

1:55.6

you're trying to help to add to what you already know to make yourselves better

2:03.6

workers better contributors and I think that's great I think also that I'm

2:10.1

not going to make a long speech but I'm going to tell you I was told to say an

2:14.1

anecdote anecdotes are easy so I thought to myself what kind of anecdote

2:20.0

can I tell these people who really have more important things to do and I

2:25.7

figured I'm gonna tell you how Spider-Man came into being

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