I can understand you, being consistent is hard, especially when the result is not of the quality we expect. I tend to think about doing my best on every attempt, even though I know that the result often won't be as good as I'd like.
It's every creative person's struggle, but the key is to keep going until exceptional quality appears. I gave some examples in this text, but it is a pattern that repeats itself with every author you analyze, they all produced a lot of quantity before reaching quality.
You're right. It's the practice, the unending pumping out of material or playing those tunes ad nauseum until something inside either brings tears to the eyes or a vibration of the sternum. When a piece of work achieves perfection, it will let us know in no uncertain terms.
We tend to try so hard to make everything perfect that we forget that even the best creators have done mountains of mediocre work before coming up with something of extraordinary quality. Quantity leads to quality if practiced with effort.
I love this article, and it feels like you wrote it just for me. Thank you, Alvaro.
Thank you Sue! :)
I can understand you, being consistent is hard, especially when the result is not of the quality we expect. I tend to think about doing my best on every attempt, even though I know that the result often won't be as good as I'd like.
It's every creative person's struggle, but the key is to keep going until exceptional quality appears. I gave some examples in this text, but it is a pattern that repeats itself with every author you analyze, they all produced a lot of quantity before reaching quality.
You're right. It's the practice, the unending pumping out of material or playing those tunes ad nauseum until something inside either brings tears to the eyes or a vibration of the sternum. When a piece of work achieves perfection, it will let us know in no uncertain terms.
Great advice!!! And empowering as well. Thanks.
Thanks David! :)
We tend to try so hard to make everything perfect that we forget that even the best creators have done mountains of mediocre work before coming up with something of extraordinary quality. Quantity leads to quality if practiced with effort.