Shaan Puri

There was another example of this like many projects thing, quantity thing that was on the pod.

It was a while back.

Christina from Vanta came on the podcast.

The episode is popular, but I feel like there's really one takeaway from this episode.

She told me the story about the pottery experiments.

Kind of a semi-famous example if you read a bunch of books, but most people don't read books.

The story is there's a professor in a college in Florida.

And the actual story is, I think it was about photography, but they kind of changed it to be about pottery for some reason.

So he has a class and he wants to prove a point, which is that to be a great creative, again, it's about this commitment.

And so he says, half the class he tells,

you will be judged at the end of the semester on quality.

I want you to make the best thing you can make.

So all year, you don't have to do anything, but turn in your best pot at the end of the semester, and I will grade you only on the best pot you make.

Okay, great.

That's first half of the class.

Second half of the class, he says, I will grade you only on the quantity of the number of pots you make.

They could be bad.

They could be good.

I don't care.

As many as you turn in your grade will be a function of quantity.