Quantity vs Quality?
November 5, 2010 – 4:49 pm
“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.”
- Art & Fear: Observations On the Perils (and Rewards)
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July 30, 2011 9:01 am
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Really interesting and thought-provoking. Do you think it’s a tree story?
This reminds me of what I was talking to you about a few months ago when you were planning a game you were making. I think my advice was to just get in there and start coding instead of planning and planning and planning. Some planning is required, sure, but it’s far more beneficial to just get doing.
I’m not sure you can really know what’s going to come out of the end of the process, and can only find out by doing it.
Reminds me of this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Procrastinator
Basically says that a Procrastinator likely suffers from perfectionism