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#99 Unlearn to learn and push your pottery further
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What is up Shaping Nation o this episode of Shaping Your Pottery I am talking about Unlearning to learn and grow as a potter
Often times we think we know something so we stop learning and growing, but then we can kind of get stagnate and our pottery will platue
That is why it is so important to Unlearn things so you can start developing your voice even further
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 go grab it here www.shapingyourpottery.com/questions
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Transcript
Introduction and Purpose of the Podcast
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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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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.
The Importance of Unlearning in Pottery
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What is up, Shaping Nation? This is Nick Torres here. In this episode of Shaping and Pottery, I'm going to be talking about unlearning stuff in order to start learning again and why it's important to help you discover your own unique voice. You see, sometimes when we're in school or if we have learned something before, we think that is the only way about going about it sometimes. And so we keep on doing this same thing over and over and over again. But
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We're still getting lousy results, I guess, not the results that we would want.
Challenging Old Methods and Trying New Techniques
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So here's my question to you. What if instead of doing the same thing over and over again, it's still getting not the results that you want? What if you tried to unlearn something so that you can start learning again? Imagine what that could do to your pottery. Imagine you have a certain technique that you've been let's say you you are throwing on the wheel and for ages
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you have thrown the exact same way because that's what you were taught to throw and how you centered. Now imagine if you just unlearn that for a second and you tried something else you tried to learn something else and imagine what that would do to your wheel throwing. Here's what I think it would do to your wheel throwing because I have experienced this
Personal Journey and Continuous Learning
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I used to throw the way my first ceramics teacher taught me. It was just to use a sponge and you're about to snap your fingers. And so I tried that, but it didn't really work for me. And so I went on to other throwing methods.
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I eventually found one where I just used my knuckle and a sponge and that one helped me significantly more than just the snapping motion. And I think that if you're able to actually get out of what you actually know and start to think in ways of how can I unlearn this and what new skills can I learn or what new skills can I try in order to make this easier for myself or make it look better.
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You have to be able to unlearn these things sometimes because when we are in that state of, oh, I know this already, I don't have to know anymore because I already know it and I can do this
Ego, Experimentation, and Finding Your Voice
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already. Now what happens is you get stagnant and you're not actually growing at all. So you aren't actually being able to push your pottery further. You're not being able to make something easier. You're not able to find your voice because you think you know it all.
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So you have to be in that learning mindset and sometimes you have to learn the things that you have learned in order to get that mindset. I think you should be always trying to experiment with ways to make pottery easier for yourself, make your pottery look even better and just keep on trying to experiment with these things.
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But that's not gonna come if you are too, you have a big ego about it and you think, oh, this is the only way I can do it and there's no other way. You have to learn these things sometimes in order to pursue your pottery further so that you can grow as a potter, find your voice and make things that just look really, really cool to you and look absolutely amazing and stand out from the crowd.
Connecting with the Community
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Thanks for listening to this episode of Shaping Your Pottery.
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If you have questions about developing your voice or just pottery questions in general, send them to me my way. Go to shapingyourpottery.com forward slash contact to send me your questions.