A pottery professor split students into two groups: one perfected a single pot, the other made as many as possible. The group that made more pots ended up with better work. Repeated practice beats polishing one piece.
So there's a potter professor here, he splits his class in two and he tells one half of the class that, okay, you guys, for the next month, you're going to spend all your time creating one perfect pot. You'll be judged purely on the quality of that one piece. Exactly. The other half of the class, he said, you are just going to produce as many pots as you can, and afterwards I'm going to judge you on how many you made and the quality that you made. Right. I thought until I did this, that going for, like, quality on one thing, Polish, Polish, Polish, polish was the way to go. But what happens is that when you do things over and over and over again, the quality on these things, the 80%, slowly climbs to 100%. Yeah, because it's not a true 100%, it's your 100%. Exactly. And that's the way it is with art, music, all of that. So as I did this over and over and over again, my thousandth track was way better than the first one.
