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I knew I was on to something because when I went to San Francisco to talk about it everyone said I was mad. So I thought, "Good, it means nobody else is doing it."
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What it means
Our interpretation.
The speaker took being called mad as encouraging evidence: if everyone thinks an idea is crazy, probably nobody else is pursuing it. Dismissal becomes a sign of originality rather than failure, a wry way of turning ridicule into confirmation that the idea was worth having.
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