Why Doing Things Over and Over Won’t Make You Better
We’re Missing the Point of That Stupid Clay Pot Story
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5 min readMar 16, 2022
If you want to get better, you’ve got to produce. Again and again. That’s the argument in The Clay Pot Story. If you haven’t heard it: “A teacher divides a class into two groups. Group A only has to produce one clay pot. Group B has to make as many clay pots as possible. In the end, not only did Group B make more clay pots, but their final pots were better than the ones made by Group A. Quantity leads to quality.”