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Always do Something

Oct, 2008 (2008-10-09 13:15)

Has there been better advice given to anyone trying to accomplish anything?

Over at flexbandit, donkeybandit was discussing how his blog helped advance his career, which is an interesting enough topic in itself.

But he linked over to an article titled Quantity Always Trumps Quality. While I’d argue that always is a dangerous word and balance is probably in order, there was a great excerpt about making it happen.

Check out this excerpt from the book…

The ceramics teacher announced on opening day that he was dividing the class into two groups. 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…

Well, came grading time and a curious fact emerged: the works of highest quality were all produced by the group being graded for quantity. 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.