“Is my idea brilliant or dull” isn’t a useful question most of the time.
A more useful question is:
“What problem am I trying to solve?”
When you have a clear answer to that question, you can then start the process of testing your idea to see how good it is. All you need to do is:
- Join or create a team who are passionate about solving the problem.
- Create minimal liberating rituals and systems to test multiple solutions quickly.
- Convince someone to finance the idea.
- Find evangelists to sell the idea.
The next time you have a potentially brilliant idea, a useful question could be, “How much effort and time am I willing to spend to solve this problem?”