Quality 🆚 Quantity

I have been a bit inconsistent with my blog these days. One of the reasons is I have been procrastinating a lot these days and I am writing lesser. There is a common problem which I have seen in a lot of people. Many people prefer quality over quantity. I had this notion as well in my school days as well as in my initial college days, but when I write posts for this blog, I prefer to write whatever I feel might be helpful and don't bother much about the end result. 

I had read a case study where a teacher divided the students into two groups. One group would be marked based on the quality of their best pot and the second group would be marked on the number of pots created.

Now, among these two groups, which group do you think created better pot? Most of you have picked the one which had one goal to create a perfect pot.

But the second group beat the first one. The reason is quite insightful. The first group was focused on creating a perfect pot they ended up expecting higher results which led them into thinking a lot and they started worrying and they had just one goal to create a perfect pot.

On the other hand, the second did not care about the end result and they just focused on the process. They had the freedom in trying out different things. They learnt from their failures and applied new changes and kept doing so. The second group never bothered about creating a perfect pot rather they were just involved completely in the process of making pots or doing stuff.

We can learn from the above case study is that instead of focusing on creating a perfect thing or getting excellent results we should focus on the process of doing things or learning things. If we are always thinking about the end results we might end up performing very poorly but if we are consistent and constantly changing ourselves and our work we would be able to achieve results.

Do check out my post on The Power Of Compounding where I have shared more about consistency and its effects.

Credits-

https://www.instagram.com/p/CQHJRMqlLHo/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link

(Watch this reel on Instagram by Ali Abdaal)

https://medium.com/@codenameyau/the-power-of-iteration-adc5f14e4f0a