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#163 Allow yourself to get bored
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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 allow yourself to get bored with your pottery to get new ideas flowing into your head
The Questions we ask will determine how our pottery will look like that's why I created a Free 15 questions to help you discover your voice template go grab it here www.shapingyourpottery.com/questions
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Introduction to Pottery Questions
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Real quick before we get started, did you know that the questions that we asked are going to determine what our pottery is going to look like and is going to determine what our voice is going to look like? That's why I created 15 questions that you can use right now to start discovering your own unique
Finding Your Unique Pottery Style
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voice. Go to shapingyourpottery.com forward slash questions to get this free booklet.
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If you love pottery and wanna 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.
Embracing Boredom for Creativity
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What is up, Shaping Nation? On this episode of Shaping Your Pottery, I'm gonna be talking about why you need to allow yourself to be bored with your pottery so that new ideas can start flowing and so that you can create pottery that is truly worthwhile.
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You see, I just had a really great conversation with Heidi Fehrenbacher. Heidi, in this conversation, she explained that boredom is a double-edged sword. You see, while boredom with the same, doing the same thing over and over and over again, it doles the senses, that's what she was saying. She doles the senses so you can't really come up with new ideas and you're just kind of stuck in that loop, you're stuck in that rut.
Repetition in Pottery and Bodybuilding
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But then there's that other side of boredom that you need, that boredom that is going to help you find your voice, the boredom that's going to help you improve your pottery, boredom that's going to help you make pottery that is truly amazing. Sometimes with our pottery, we need to stay bored. We need to get bored and we need to do the boring things in order to make our pottery progress.
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I don't know about you, but have you ever seen a bodybuilder or maybe, or somebody that works out a lot and they're in really great shape? And imagine this, in order to get into that great shape, they had to do really two things. They had to work out consistently and they had to eat right, eat well. And during that time, during that six months, that three months, whatever, how long it took them to get into that good of shape,
Persistence Through Boredom
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It was boring for them. It would be boring for them and they would have to work out when they wouldn't want to work out and they would have to do the same thing over and over and over and over and over again in order to see that result. And it's the same thing with our pottery. You know, we need this boredom sometimes in order to make our pottery come to life. Oftentimes, people get bored and like, I want to try something new.
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But what happens is if you don't stick with it long enough, then you're not gonna actually make your vision come to life. You're not gonna be able to see your vision in real form because you get bored and you move on to the next shiny object. You have to get through that boredom sometimes. You have to keep on pushing through that boredom until you figure it out. Like right now, I switched my pottery from just wheel throwing a while ago
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But now I'm onto sculpture and it can be boring sometimes. But I'm forcing myself to go do that stuff because I know that I have to get through that in order to make my vision come to life.
Overcoming Boredom for Innovation
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You have to get through that boredom stage. You have to get you have to put in those reps. You have to get through that boredom of experimenting. You have to get through that boredom of just trying things out so that you can get into that next.
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level for your pottery so that your pottery is looking great. It is going to start looking amazing. You have to get through that boredom stage sometimes. And then after a while, once you get the hang of it, your skills build up. That's when you start experimenting, you start expanding, you start looking at that next shiny object. But you have to get through that boredom stage first. I hope this episode brought you some value and I'll see you guys next time.
Engagement with Listeners
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We hope you enjoyed this episode of Shaping Your Pottery with Nick Torres. Do you have questions about pottery that you'd like Nick to answer? Send them to us on Instagram at Nick Torres underscore pottery. We'll see you next time.