A teacher once split his pottery class into two groups.

The first group got one instruction:

Make one pot. Just one.

But it had to be the best pot you could possibly make.

The second group got a completely different instruction:

Make as many pots as you can.

Bad pots. Good pots. Weird pots. Wobbly pots.

Doesn’t matter. Just keep making them.

At the end of the semester, the teacher looked at the work.

And something surprising happened.

The group that made the most pots… made the best pots.

Not only that, they had more fun.

They enjoyed the process more.

They were less tense.

Less precious.

Less trapped in their own heads.

A lot of us walk through life (myself included) like the first group.

We want the perfect pot.

The perfect plan.

The perfect body.

The perfect business.

The perfect life.

The perfect time to begin.

So we hover.

We think. We doubt.

We become professional hesitators.

Mañana! Mañana!

And all the while, the people quietly making lots of ugly, imperfect pots…are getting better.

That’s the bit that stings.

The people who improve the fastest are rarely the ones obsessing over quality at the start.

They’re the ones willing to be seen trying.

Willing to make bad versions.

Willing to be a little bit rubbish before they become good.

They understand something the rest of us forget:

You do not find excellence by thinking about it.

You find it through repetition.

It’s not the one perfect workout that changes your body.

It’s the messy month where you show up more often than you don’t.

It’s not the one brilliant chapter that writes the book.

It’s all the average pages you wrote before it.

It’s not one magical conversation that makes you confident.

It’s all the awkward ones that taught you how to listen, pause, speak, and smile.

The quantity group improved because they removed the pressure.

They weren’t trying to prove anything with each pot.

They were just making.

We often assume people doing beautiful work were born more gifted, more polished, more naturally talented.

But most of the time?

They’ve just made more pots than you.

When you focus on doing something, again and again and again…

You give greatness a chance to catch up.

So if you’ve been waiting recently…

This is your reminder:

Make more pots.

Because the people who make the most…usually end up making the best.

Kia kaha & much love,
Chris x