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Tom Pestridge

Sep 2026 • linkedin

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A pottery teacher split his class in two. One group was graded on quantity. As many pots as possible. The other group was graded on quality. One pot. It had to be perfect. In the end, the highest quality pots all came from the quantity group. None came from the perfectionists. The story is from a book called Art & Fear. Because while one group theorised about the perfect pot… The other kept making them. And learning from every bad one. Here's what all those attempts actually did: 1. Reps beat theory ↳ You cannot t…

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