Quantity Is the Path to Quality

The prolific person, not the perfectionist, produces the breakthrough.

This framework extends the pottery experiment into a general principle: in almost every creative and entrepreneurial domain, the people who produce the most work also produce the best work. Not because they're more talented, but because volume creates the reps needed to develop taste, skill, and instinct. The perfectionist who ships once a year will almost always lose to the person who ships every week.

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