Somehow this ended up in another thread. Very confused.
I’d really love to know more about why he had to,and how he did, defend the concept early on. Like how hard did he have to push back.
I learned to defend my ideas fairly robustly in my design career but actually that came from a few years in uni where they operate an often tough critique system, where you put your work on the wall and ten or so of your peers pick it apart. Useful, but often brutal. You learn very quickly to recognise good feedback and separate it from folk just feeling like they have to have something to say or simply being argumentative.
What I found was it’s a really difficult tightrope to walk in a more corporate environment and I got quite tired of doing it in my design career. I feel quite strongly about defending your ideas but it can get misconstrued as taking feedback badly. Which absolutely isn’t the case. It’s simply not folding at the first hint of conflict.