Ignore Naysayers and Trust Your Inner Voice to Be Wildly Successful
It’s something we all have the power to do if we so choose.
We came very close to losing Spiderman.
Several years ago, Stan Lee had an idea for a new kind of superhero.
Instead of a full-grown man like every other character, he made him a teenager.
Instead of being rich, handsome and perfect, he was awkward and broke.
To top it off, he was named after something many people hated — spiders.
With great enthusiasm he pitched the idea to his publisher, who told him:
Stan, that is the worst idea I have ever heard.
That should have been the end of it. But just to get it out of his system, he wrote a story about the character and put it in a magazine that was being killed off due to poor sales.
That magazine ended up breaking all sales records, and Spiderman eventually became one of the most popular superheroes of all time.
In Stan Lee’s own words:
If you have an idea that you genuinely think is good, don’t let some idiot talk you out of it.