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The Story Of The Perfect Clay Pot

Name: The Story Of The Perfect Clay Pot
Uploaded: 2025-06-15T00:00:46+00:00
Duration: 41 s
Channel: Shanli Liu, CPA, CTP
Description: In this short monologue, the speaker recounts a pottery class story where a teacher assigns two different tasks to two classes: one class must produce a…

15 Jun 2025 · 1 min

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In this short monologue, the speaker recounts a pottery class story where a teacher assigns two different tasks to two classes: one class must produce a single perfect clay pot for the entire semester, while the other class is tasked with making as many pots as possible. At the end of the term, the high‑volume class not only produced more pots but also achieved higher overall quality than the perfection‑focused class. The speaker uses this anecdote to illustrate his core life lesson: "volume negates luck" – that by doing a large amount of work you can brute‑force success and reduce reliance on luck.

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Have you heard the, the story of the, the pottery class? There's a teacher and he's got two classes that he teaches. One class, he says, the only assignment for this whole semester is that you come, come back with a perfect clay pot. That's it. That's the assignment. The other class, he says, your objective is to make the most total quantity of clay pots, and you'll be measured by how many pots you make. And at the end of the quarter, the pots that came from the team that had to just make sheer volume, not only did they make more pots, but the quality of all of their pots was better compared to the teams that only had to make one. And it just underlines the, the biggest lesson that I've learned in my life, which is that volume negates luck. If you don't want to try and be lucky, you can just do so much fucking work. You will brute force your way to figuring it out.