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#235 When was the last time you changed up your pottery
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On this episode I am explaining the importance of changing the way your pottery looks like and why you should be changing it frequently. Listen to this episode to learn more
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Introduction and Discovering Your Pottery Voice
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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 it's 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 voice go to shapingyourpottery.com forward slash questions to get this free booklet
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When was the last time you changed up the way your pottery looked like? Has it been a year, month? Did you do it last week? When was the last time you actually changed the way your pottery looked like?
Finding and Evolving Your Pottery Style
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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.
00:00:49
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What is up Shaping Nation? This is Nick Torres. And on this episode of Shaping a Pottery, I'm going to be talking about why you need to be changing up your pottery consistently in order to evolve your foliage to grow as a potter and to actually, you know, make your voice come to life. So.
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A lot of times, we get stuck doing the same thing over and over and over again, right? It's working for us. So we keep doing those things over and over again, which is fine, right? You know, that old rule, if it ain't broke, then why stop doing it? But at the same time, I bet you if you're making the same thing over and over and over again, you're probably bored of what you're making, or maybe you're getting a little burnt out of what you're making.
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Whatever it is that you're doing, you're probably getting a little burnt out because you're doing the same things over and over and over again. I don't know about you, but that would make me incredibly bored. It's like a, let's think of it like this. So when somebody buys a new farm.
Importance of Evolution in Pottery
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They have to re-trail the road, they have to re-trail the farm, and then they actually have to do some work with the tractor in order to make that line come live and actually make all the seeds plow and do all that stuff for the farm. But eventually,
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They start doing it so much that they're literally just able to sit back in the tractor doing nothing without having to touch the wheel. It's literally just pressing the gas and that's it. It's just going in a straight line at that point because the road has already been paved and you're not going and trying anything different.
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And it's the same thing with our pottery. When we start doing things for so long, we know exactly what's going to happen. We know exactly how it's going to look like. We know the exact result going to come out of the kiln. And that's why it's so important to be evolving our voice constantly. At least almost every, I feel like we should be changing our voice at least every three months or so.
Incremental Changes for Growth
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And that it could be a little more could be a little less depending on what you're making how complicated you're making it. But I think we should at least be trying to change it up or evolving it further at least every three months. You know you don't have to change it all the time. But you have to take time to at least try to improve it.
00:03:12
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so that it starts looking a little better and that's how your voice starts evolving further and your pottery starts looking better not by doing the same things over and over again but by doing something that makes it look a little bit different you don't have to change it completely up
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No, no, no, we don't want that. We don't want it to look completely different compared to what we normally make. What we want is to make some small incremental changes that make it look that much better. It gives it that much flair. You don't have to, you know, go for the fences and swing for the fences all at once, all the time.
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Sometimes better just go for those singles. You know, you need to get on base. You need to get on base. You need to make it look just a little bit better. And eventually when you have all those singles added up, runs start coming
Continuous Evolution to Avoid Stagnation
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in. I know I'm using a baseball reference for those that don't know, but the more singles you have, the more you are going to score some runs. And that is with our pottery as well.
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Make small incremental changes. It doesn't have to be huge changes, but make some small changes to evolve your voice even further. Again, your pottery should never be staying the same the entire year you are making pottery, right? If your pottery is the same as it was a year ago, you are doing something wrong.
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You are doing something wrong. It's just that that's as simple as it is. You're doing something wrong if your pottery looks exactly the same state a year ago. It should be changing and should be evolving because that's how you get better. That's how you grow as a person. That's how you grow as a pottery. So keep evolving your pottery. Keep changing your pottery. And I ask you a question again. When was the last time you actually changed your pottery? Was it yesterday? Was it a year ago? Was it a month ago? Was it last week? When was the last time you changed your pottery?
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And if it hasn't, if it's been a little bit, maybe start thinking about how to evolve it further. I hope you guys enjoyed this episode and I'll see you guys in the next one.