Whether ideas sound great or ridiculous, they’re all worth exactly the same at the beginning—zero. What’s really worth something is the execution.

I worked with people in my pre-Collegewise years who were always quick to propose ideas about what we should try, do differently, seek out, etc. They’d throw their ideas up during a meeting and then wait for someone else to offer to actually execute them. They would talk a big game but work a much smaller one. In retrospect, the only thing they ever contributed were words.  And those words are worth even less today than they were in the moment they shared them.

That’s why it’s better to be a do-er than a talker.

Is it worth it to have good ideas? Sure. But what’s really valuable, where all the success and learning and growth come from, is your ability to actually take that idea and do something with it. Ideas are the easy part. It’s the doing that’s difficult.