How to fight instant pushback to your ideas

You can change the world, but it sometimes comes at a steep cost. It did for Ignaz Semmelweis, the first doctor to discover handwashing saved lives, especially mothers in his maternity ward. He made 5 key mistakes that you can avoid. And in doing so, I hope you'll be able to avoid the insane asylum.

Everyone who makes something new gets hit back quickly with what is known now as the Semmelweis Reflex- people reject anything that challenges them out of hand. You can be prepared to face this. Here's the five ways steps:

0:00 Intro
01:07 History of Ignaz Semmelweis
03:05 Speak for yourself
04:26 Persevere, and don't ragequit
05:34 Speak truth when you know you're right
06:09 When they go low, we go high
07:13 The breakthrough is only half the work

Thanks for watching! I made this video last night in about 3 hours- I'm going for a video a week, and my goal is to just help future founders and people who are making things get to the next stage.

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Видео How to fight instant pushback to your ideas канала Garry Tan