Robin Sharma argues that unreasonable people drive progress, citing George Bernard Shaw. If others laugh at your dream, that's a sign it matters. He pushes trusting your gut instincts alongside intellect and heart when scaling a business.
George Bernard Shaw said, the reasonable man adapts himself to the world. The unreasonable one persists in adapting the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable woman and man.
If people are laughing at your dream, it's probably an awesome dream. All visionaries and disruptors were initially ridiculed before they were revered. If your dream doesn't scare you, dream bigger. Don't play small with your dream.
Trust your instinct. There's a reason you have it. To start this new piece of code to launch this project, to hire this person, trust it. And there's a lot of science backing up the gut instinct, and they call it the three brain theory. The intellectual brain, the brain in the heart, and the brain in the gut instinct is incredibly powerful.