![]() ![]() And mediocre might just lead to good, which every now and then might get me to awesome. Dare to write one really awful sentence if you have to. And keep showing up.Īttempt mediocrity, even. I still get stuck overthinking, delaying, waiting for inspiration. ![]() Quantity leads to quality. I don’t know if I’m learning it. And I’ve been having this lesson delivered to me repeatedly over the past year. It seems that while the “quantity” group was busily churning out piles of work – and learning from their mistakes – the “quality” group had sat theorizing about perfection, and in the end had little more to show for their efforts than grandiose theories and a pile of dead clay.īrilliant. Well, came grading time and a curious fact emerged: the works of highest quality were all produced by the group being graded for quantity. ![]() Those being graded on “quality”, however, needed to produce only one pot – albeit a perfect one – to get an “A”. His procedure was simple: on the final day of class he would bring in his bathroom scales and weigh the work of the “quantity” group: fifty pound of pots rated an “A”, forty pounds a “B”, and so on. All those on the left side of the studio, he said, would be graded solely on the quantity of work they produced, all those on the right solely on its quality. The ceramics teacher announced on opening day that he was dividing the class into two groups. This story from the book Art & Fear by David Bayles and Ted Orland popped up in a favorite technology blog yesterday: ![]()
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