What is the best way to learn?
A pottery teacher split her class into two halves.
To the first half she said, “You will spend the semester studying pottery, planning, designing and creating your perfect pot. At the end of the semester, there will be a competition to see whose pot is the best.”
To the other half she said, “You will spend your semester making lots of pots. Your grade will be based on the number of completed pots you finish. At the end of the semester, you’ll also have the opportunity to enter your best pot into a competition.”
The first half of the class threw themselves into their research–planning and designing. Then they set about creating their one perfect pot for the competition.
The second half of the class immediately grabbed fistfuls of clay and started churning out pots.
They made big ones and small ones and simple ones and intricate ones. Their muscles ached for weeks as they gained the strength needed to throw so many pots.
At the end of class, both halves were invited to enter a perfect pot into the competition. Once the votes were counted, all of the best pots came from the students that were tasked with quantity.
The practice they gained made them significantly better than the potters that were on the other side.
Quantity begets quality! Take every opportunity to speak.
Whatever you can do or dream you can begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it–that’s a quote from a German poet named Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.
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