Tell me about an idea from someone else that you initially dismissed — and that turned out to be good. What changed your mind?

Recognizing novelty in someone else's rough idea is as much a creative skill as generating your own, and the reflex no is a failure everyone has actually committed. The closing clause surfaces whether the reconsideration was their own doing or forced on them by events.

• What exactly did you say or do when you first heard it?
• What was your dismissal actually based on?
• Did you go back to the person, and what did you say?
• What do you do differently with half-formed ideas now?

An honest reconstruction of the dismissal, including why it felt reasonable at the time, a mind changed by evidence or reflection rather than by being overruled, credit given back to the person, and a changed habit for how rough ideas get heard.

The dismissal is softened until there's nothing left to own, the mind only changed once the idea succeeded publicly, the originator goes uncredited in the retelling, or no such moment exists — every idea has always been met with an open mind.