by on 8 February, 2009 - 18:11
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.
His procedure was simple: on the final day of class he would bring in his bathroom scales and weigh the work of the “quantity” group: fifty pound of pots rated an “A”, forty pounds a “B”, and so on. Those being graded on “quality”, however, needed to produce only one pot—albeit a perfect one—to get an “A”.
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.
Get on with your Design and stop thinking about it. Fail often, Fail a lot, but fail early.
Quote Via: Russell Davies
Original Post: http://www.designsojourn.com/quantity-equals-quality-if-you-fail-a-lot/
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Ben Doepke says:
09 Feb 2009, 02:50
it would seem at least a few of us are on a similar wavelength. an article in ode magazine recently prompted me to post this:
http://blog.seekresearch.com/blog/thump-thump-thump/0/0/ideation-hurts-p...
you might find inspiration in the embedded address from j.k. rowling to the harvard graduating class.
thanks for your post - here's to glorious failure!
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