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Everybody's own ideas seem obvious to them, so what is obvious to you may be amazing to someone else.

Drawn from what Derek Sivers said

Mental modelCurse of knowledge

On the topicWhich mental models should a designer think with?under our view: What you know is hard to unsee: borrow a newcomer's eyes, or your own after time away

What Derek Sivers actually said

  1. Derek Sivers Founded CD Baby in 1998 and sold it in 2008
    Everybody’s ideas seem obvious to them. I’ll bet even John Coltrane or Richard Feynman felt that everything they were playing or saying was pretty obvious. So maybe what’s obvious to me is amazing to someone else?

    ↗Obvious to you. Amazing to others.sive.rs

    21 Nov 2010

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