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Quantity, not Quality
There’s a story about a pottery teacher who divides the class into two groups. The first group works on one piece for the entire semester, continually refining that piece for months. The second group’s goal is to make as many pots as possible during the semester. The lesson of the story is that the last pot of the second group is vastly superior to the perfected pot of the first group and therefore it’s better to make as many mistakes as possible without obsessing over details.
This story is bullshit.
The lesson is fine, but whoever came up with that story has never touched clay.
It’s impossible to work on a piece for more than twenty minutes without the clay deforming. You can only fix up to a certain point, then it’s not only diminishing returns but a waste of time.
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