Personally I think the feeling of wet socks trumps both of these, but we’re all different.
My worst feeling is “I tried that two years ago but couldn’t get enough people interested, so I dropped it…”
Once I thought and did the thing then realized the thought was the thing to do and then it kept going and going and…
“I thought of that, but not enough to act on it!”
I’ve thought of an improvement to an existing product, but don’t have the thousands of dollars to try an patent it, or start selling it in it’s improved fashion. It sucks, cause it would be nice to have and I think a lot of people would want to buy it.
ADHD is doing that every single fucking day, and taking prescriptions that sorta help with it sometimes, but also have a lot of extremely irritating and frustrating side effects for a lot of people.
FOMO is a bitch
Which will be our reaction when climate change goes past a certain point.
Naw, even worse is thinking of something, creating a prototype, using one of the patent help services and not hearing anything back until a few years later when you see a commercial for your idea.
How about “Ooo, that’s a good idea” “oh, someone else thought of that thirty years ago and it went nowhere”