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#145 Learn the Rules of Pottery and Break Them
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What is up Shaping Nation on this episode of Shaping Your Pottery I am going to be talking about why you should learn the rules of pottery then you should break them
You will learn how learning and breaking the rules of pottery will help you discover your own unique voice
Take this Free Quiz to help you find your pottery voice click here to take the quiz shapingyourpottery.com/quiz
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Discover Your Pottery Voice with a Quiz
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Hey, if you would like to discover what your unique pottery voice is, I put together a free quiz that you can take to help you discover what your pottery voice is. It's a quick four question quiz. All you have to do to take it is go to shapingyourpottery.com forward slash quiz, or you can go simply go to shapingyourpottery.com. It'll be right there on the top.
Introduction to Shaping Your Pottery
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If you love pottery and want to take your skills to the next level, you're in the right place. Find your own pottery style right here on Shaping Your Pottery with Nick Torres. Let's get started.
Why Learn Pottery Rules Before Breaking Them?
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What is up, Shaping Nation? This is Nick Torres here. And on this episode of Shaping Your Pottery, I'm going to be talking about how you should be learning the rules of pottery and then you need to break them. You need to break it in half. You need to start doing your own thing. I had a really great conversation with Mandy Henry and
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In this conversation, we were talking about what advice would you give to someone trying to find their own unique voice? And she explained to me is that every potter needs to learn the rules of pottery, and then you'd need to break them. And when she said that, I thought that was really, really, really profound.
Finding Personal Pottery Techniques
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You see, you do need to learn the rules of pottery. There are certain rules that you need to learn for pottery,
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to help you progress with your skills to help you to gain the basic knowledge of things around pottery. But then once you have that basic knowledge around pottery and the things that you are trying to create.
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Go break them. Go shatter them. Go throw the glass on the ground. Go break every single rule. Go break it. And the reason why it is important to break the rules after you have learned them, and I know a lot of you probably saying like, why should I break the rules if I just learned them? Well, you break the rules to find an easier way to make pottery for yourself, to find something that is just going to stick for you.
Nick's Journey to a Unique Style
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Because while you were learning these rules, oftentimes what could have happened was you were taught something. And because you were taught something, you stuck with that thing and you stuck it out because.
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That's what you knew what was working somebody else is doing that thing. And it was working for them. So you kept on doing it. But I bet you along the way, while you were learning that skill, maybe it was wheel throwing, hand building, sculpture, whatever it was, while you were learning that skill, you noticed that what they were doing for themselves, it was not working for you. I know I felt that way when I was first learning how to throw. My teacher taught us how to throw a certain way, use a sponge, you know, and center a certain way.
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but that was not working for me. Like I learned it, but once I broke out of that, that's when I started making progress for myself. I started centering a completely different
How Rule-Breaking Leads to a Unique Voice
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way. I started throwing a completely different way as well. Once I broke that, the things that I learned, everything became so much easier because I found something that worked for me. That's why you need to learn the rules,
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but then break them. You must get comfortable with breaking those rules in pottery. You have to find ways to make pottery easier for yourself, more efficient, more fun, just for you. Because what works for somebody else may not work for you in pottery. That's why it's really important to break those rules. Go throw it on the ground, break the glass. Go break the rules for pottery. Not only that, it's also gonna help you discover your own unique voice as well. Because like I said, what somebody else is doing may not work for you.
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And if you really like hand building and you kind of like what somebody else is making, but you try it and it just doesn't really soothe your soul when you are trying with somebody else making.
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What if you broke those rules and get something completely different? Could you imagine what that would do for your pottery? What that would do to your voice? That's why it's really important to break those rules. Learn the rules and then break the rules. And I hope this brought you some value. I'll see you guys next
Encouragement to Discover Your Style
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time. Hey, thanks for listening to this episode of Shaping Your Pottery with Nick Torres. If you enjoyed this episode and you would like to learn how to discover your own unique voice with your pottery,
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I put together a free quiz to help you guys discover your own unique voice. All you have to do to take this quiz, it's very short, it's 30 seconds long, four questions. All you have to do to take this quiz is go to shapingyourpotter.com forward slash quiz to go start taking this quiz or you could just simply go to shapingyourpotter.com and be right there at the top. I'll see you guys next time.