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Speaker: 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.
Speaker: What is up, Shaping Nation? This is Nick Torres here. And in this episode of Shaping Your Pottery, I'm going to be talking about adding your strengths into your pottery and why that's important to add your strengths into your pottery. So before I get into that lesson of adding your strengths, you have to learn a little bit about me, about my time in high school playing sports. So when I was in high school, I used to I played two sports. I played baseball.
Speaker: and water polo. Two sports that involved throwing. While both these sports, I wasn't necessarily the the best at. I did certain things that made me stand out a little bit better. And that was just by following my strengths, my strengths that led me to being able to be a little bit better, just a slight better than someone else.
Speaker: And I still apply these strengths into my own pottery as well and how it can actually help me find my voice a lot too. So when I was first starting water polo, I was not very fast as you can imagine, because I hadn't swam like that for a really long time. I used to swim when I was little, but I didn't swim like that for a long time. And it was the physical conditioning was really hard.
Speaker: But that didn't stop me from doing a lot of things that other people couldn't. A lot of people couldn't throw the ball right because they never had that experience of throwing a ball. I had that experience from playing baseball so it was really easy for me when it came to water polo. So a lot of people didn't have that experience of throwing a ball. So I used my strength of knowing how to throw a ball and that helped me a lot.
Speaker: Another strength I used was my eyes. I used this for both both baseball and water polo. But I think it to me it shined more in water polo because a lot of people they couldn't really judge how far somebody was with the ball.
Speaker: And with me, I had the really lucky ability to just look very well. My eyes were a little bit better than other people's. So it helped me a lot when I was making passes. I always remember like, I still, this is like one of the, probably the greatest feelings I'll get. It wasn't shooting a goal into the goal with a water pool ball. For me, the most, the better feeling was
Speaker: making a pass that would land right in front of the swimmer and then he would make the goal. That was such a great feeling for me but I achieved that because I was able to see with my eyes and I was able to stay calm. Those were my strengths. I had the ability to throw a ball from baseball. I had the ability to look really well and I had the ability to stay calm under pressure.
Speaker: And those things really helped me develop my water polo skills. And I still use those skills today when I'm working on my voice for my pottery or making just pottery in general. I look at things in a different way. And I try to incorporate things that I see with my eyes and how I stay calm so that it actually helps me develop my voice further.
Speaker: Now, how can you add your own strengths into your pottery, into finding your voice? Maybe your strengths is you are a very loving person and that because you are a loving person, a lot of people gravitate towards you and they show love back to you because you're a loving person, you're a very kind and caring person. What if you put that into your pottery as well?
Speaker: and you show that you are a loving person. Maybe you put hearts onto your pottery, whatever. Or maybe you show someone hugging each other. You show someone hugging each other or doing something else. Maybe your strength is that you're a leader and you incorporate that into your pottery. Maybe you show people walking and you are leading them through a snowy mountain. You just have to think about your own strength and how you can incorporate that into your pottery.
Speaker: The more you can incorporate your own strength into your pottery, the more your voice is going to actually show up and you're going to be able to distinguish yourself from the crowd. Thanks for listening to this episode of Shaping Your Pottery. 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.
