Obvious to you. Amazing to others.

The author argues that creators often judge their own ideas as obvious while others find them amazing, so they should share their work and let the audience decide. The piece describes the familiar experience of being stunned by someone else's work while feeling one's own ideas are ordinary. After receiving praise for an idea the writer considered nothing special, the writer concluded that everybody's ideas seem obvious to them, and cited John Coltrane and Richard Feynman as likely sharing that feeling. It also notes that hit songwriters often say their biggest hit was one they thought was not worth recording.