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You want to do bold, innovative research?

You better get comfortable sounding dumb first.

But here’s the problem:
Most PhD students I know are terrified of saying the wrong thing.
Of being “exposed.” Of wasting time on something that won’t publish.
So they wait. They polish. They hide.

And that’s how innovation dies.
Quietly. Safely.
Inside draft folders and anxiety.

I don’t blame them.
Most academic environments reward correctness, not creativity.
Speed, not depth.
Style, not substance.

But if you want to lead R&D—inside or outside the university—you have to flip the script:

✅ Create space to be wrong in public.
✅ Get comfortable sharing half-formed ideas.
✅ Say “I don’t know” without shame.

And as a mentor, advisor, or manager?

🔥 Your job is to make it emotionally safe to explore ideas that might look ridiculous today—but become real breakthroughs tomorrow.

Brilliant ideas don’t start brilliant.
They start with someone being brave enough to sound stupid.

Let them.