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Yeah I’m pretty sure this was about pottery.

If you make the same pot 100 times that 100th pot is your best one.

>>kimos+(OP)
I found the name of that photographer (RIP), who lives in Florida and who taught. Also has a thing about quantity over quality. But his own site didn't specifically mention this anecdote. I've also read the pottery one.

I'd love to know if either are real and verifiable.

The lesson is most likely real and applicable either way.

>>neogod+V1
My experience with writing, music, and photography is that I get better results trying a bunch of different things rather than focusing on one or a few. The quality is still variable, but the hit rate is much higher. I can then switch to polishing a batch of hits rather than trying to turn a single idea into a hit.

>>kimos+(OP)
The story about the photography students was conveyed almost verbatim in the book Atomic Habits fwiw.

But I think this type of principle has been relayed through many forms. Even Bruce Lee has the famous quote “I fear not the man who has practiced 10,000 kicks once, but I fear the man who has practiced one kick 10,000 times.”