Ignore Everyone

The more original your idea is, the less valuable advice other people would be able to afford to you. At the same token, you will not know if your idea is any good the moment it is born. Neither does anyone else. The most you can hope for is a strong gut feeling that it is a good one. My personal experience is that trusting my own gut feeling is not as easy as the optimists say it is. There's a reason why feelings scare us - because what they tell us and what the rest of the world tells us are often two different things.

And asking close friends never works quite as well as you hope, either. It is not that they purposely want to be unhelpful but it is because they don't know your world one millionth as well as you know your world, no matter how hard they try, no matter how hard you try to explain.

Also, a big idea will change you! Your friends may love you, but they may not want you to change. If you change, then their dynamic with you also changes. They might prefer things the way they are, that's how they love you - the way you are, not the way you may become.

If your idea is so good that it changes your dynamic enough to where you need them less or, God forbid, the market needs them less, then your friends are going to resist your ideas every chance they can. That's human nature.

That is why good ideas are always initially resisted". - Good ideas come with a heavy burden, which is why so few people execute them. So few people can handle it.

Can you handle it? Sure you can.