Miliind Harrdas

“The greater tragedy is when people get wow ideas but never bring them in front of the world due to the fear of rejection.”
― Miliind Harrdas, Ideas on Demand: A crash course on creativity. Bust creativity blocks, 10x your ideas, and become an idea machine.

“The ceramics teacher announced on opening day that he was dividing the class into two groups. All those on the left side of the studio, he said, would be graded solely on the quantity of work they produced, all those on the right solely on its quality. His procedure was simple: on the final day of class, he would bring in his bathroom scales and weigh the work of the “quantity” group: fifty pounds of pots rated an “A”, forty pounds a “B”, and so on. Those being graded on “quality”, however, needed to produce only one pot – albeit a perfect one – to get an “A”. Well, came grading time and a curious fact emerged: the works of highest quality were all produced by the group being graded for quantity. It seems that while the “quantity” group was busily churning out piles of work – and learning from their mistakes – the “quality” group had sat theorizing about perfection, and in the end, had little more to show for their efforts than grandiose theories and a pile of dead clay.”
― Miliind Harrdas, Ideas on Demand: A crash course on creativity. Bust creativity blocks, 10x your ideas, and become an idea machine.