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#103 Building your skills to match your pottery vision!
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What is up Shaping Nation on this episode of Shaping Your Pottery I am talking about building up your skills to match your pottery vision.
We all have tons of ideas to incorporate into our pottery, but most of the time are skills don't match out vision so we think our pottery doesn't look good. I am here to tell you the only thing you have to do is to build your skills to match your vision
You have to practice your skills in order to make your vision come to life.
To get started with discovering your voice you must first start by asking the right questions Grab the Free 15 question template I created to start discovering your unique pottery voice by clicking here 👉 shapingyourpottery.com/questions
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Transcript
Introduction to Discovering 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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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 Role of Skill-Building in Pottery
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What is up, Shaping Nation? This is Nick Torres here and welcome to Shaping Your Pottery.
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In this episode, I'm going to be talking about how you need to build up your skills in order to actually find your voice, find your own style, find something that you like to make. You see, oftentimes a lot of us know what we kind of what we actually want to make already. We all have these ideas in our head and we all just kind of want to start doing that already.
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But you see here is where a lot of people make the mistake is they'll try it, they'll try whatever they're thinking. And then if it doesn't come out how they want it, then they just kind of stop, they just stop experimenting, they stop trying to get better with their pottery. And the big problem with this is, is that if you're not building, putting in the reps and building your skill set up,
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how are you ever going to reach your own style, reach something that you like to make, find your own voice. If you aren't putting in those reps to build up your skills, we need to be able to put in the reps.
Persistence and Repetition in Mastering Pottery
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So we build our skills further, build our skills so that we become more confident, more competent. And being able to find our voice is wholeheartedly
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in line with trying to build our reps. You see, I had a really great conversation with Naomi Peterson and she said one of her professors was saying that a lot of people know what they kind of want to make already. They know the ideas that they want to make. It's just that their skill set isn't to where it is, what they think they should be making, what they want to be making. And it's kind of like a
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Let's think of it kind of like an elevator. One's going up, one's going down. And the one that's going up is that's your ideas. Your ideas are the ones that are going up.
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And then the one that's going down, actually I should probably reverse it. The one that's going up is your skillset. The one that is going down is your ideas. And the more you work on your skillset, the more you are going to build up enough competence and confidence into yourself so that when that elevator of your ideas starts coming down, you meet right in the middle.
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And in that middle, you guys are even right there. And eventually, your skill set passes your ideas and you can start coming up with new ideas and it just kind of resets.
Turning Ideas into Reality with Skills
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So you have to build up your skill set first in order to start developing your voice, developing further, finding your style, finding what you like to make. Because if you don't have the skill sets necessary, then you're not going to be able to actually make what you're thinking of.
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So you have to build your skill sets, put in the repetition. In the wise words of Tony Robbins, repetition, repetition is the mother of skill. Try to imitate his voice a little bit, but I couldn't get it. Repetition is the mother of skill and that's so true with pottery. You have to put in those reps and you have to fail. You have to put in everything or else you're never going to be able to find your voice. Thanks for listening to this episode of Shaping Your Pottery with Nick Torres.
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If you want to start discovering your own unique voice, you must first start with the right questions. That's why I put together a free 15 question booklet for you to start discovering your own unique pottery voice. All you have to do is go to shapingyourpottery.com forward slash questions to get this free booklet.