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#76 Three ways to help discover your unique voice!
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On this episode of Shaping Your Pottery I talk about 3 ways to help you start discovering your unique voice.
1. Research
2.Slowing down
3.Not Focusing on selling your pottery
If you have questions about discovering your voice send me a voice message here https://www.speakpipe.com/ShapingYourPottery
Listen to other episodes here https://www.shapingyourpottery.com/
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Transcript
Intro to 'Shaping Your Pottery'
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Welcome to Shaping Your Pottery with Nick Torres where we help you discover your own unique voice so you can stand out from the crowd and have more fun making pottery so you make pottery that is truly amazing.
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What is up everybody and welcome to Shaping Your Pottery with Nick
Episode Focus: Discovering Your Pottery Voice
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Torres. In this episode, I'm going to be giving you three tips that helped me to start discovering my own voice and making my pottery easier for myself.
Why Selling Isn't the Focus
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When I was first starting out, one of the mistakes I was making was that I was always trying to make pottery just to sell.
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And that's what brings me to my first point. So in my opinion, this is a really, really big one. In my opinion, this is what helped you a lot discover your own voice because this is where you stop worrying about what other people are trying to think of your own pottery. And this is where your voice is going to start coming out because you're going to make what you want to make. It's to not focus on selling your pottery.
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I know I've said this
The Power of Slowing Down
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a lot, but it's crucial to know because the more you focus on just trying to sell your pottery, the more you're not making for yourself, the more you're not making what is going to be great. It's not going to be good. You're just trying to make a quick buck. So this is one of the biggest things that has helped me was just stop focusing on trying to sell my pottery and focus on making something that's great. And that is probably one of the biggest things that
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that help me out the most. The second thing that helped me out the most in my opinion that hopefully will help you as well is that I slowed down. I slowed down literally everything. I'm never in a rush anymore to complete a project, something that I'm making. I'm never in a rush anymore.
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The reason why I think this helps is because as potters, especially when we are first learning, we just want our piece to be perfect, but perfect isn't actually real and nothing actually becomes perfect unless it's on paper. If you slow down just for a little bit and really kind of start to think out what you're trying to make,
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then you're gonna get closer to perfect. You're gonna get closer to that ideal form that you wanna make.
Research as a Tool for Inspiration
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And it's just easier for yourself as well because then you're not stressing out as much and this is what is gonna lead you to building your voice and discovering your voice so that your pottery stands out just by slowing down a little bit. The third tip that I think will help you is research.
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When I was in my junior year and I couldn't do anything all summer, the only thing I could do was research about pottery. And when I did this research, it allowed me to spark new ideas and it allowed me to come up with new ways of making pottery, new ways of making pottery easier for myself and how I can use different techniques for myself. I think research is really, really, really undervalued in pottery because
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We see a lot of things and we may try it, but we're not actually digging deep onto why that something works, why centering a certain way is easier, why pulling a certain way is easier. Research is really, really crucial in my opinion. It's probably one of the biggest things that will help you discover your voice and
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I think research is just so important just overall, not just in pottery, just in everything. This is where your obsession is gonna start showing you. This is where everything is gonna start showing because you're doing a little bit of research. And even if you are not really a fan of research, just try doing it for five minutes. If you do it for five minutes, then you're just gonna be golden. For five minutes, maybe every other week, every week or so, five minutes of research, and you're gonna see
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spark ideas with your pottery.
Recap and Listener Interaction
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Instead of let's say you're trying to pull a wall or center clay that's easier and you're struggling with setting your clay and you do research a little bit and you look on YouTube you look at other people's pottery and you look and you say oh they're doing it this way maybe I should try doing it that way as well and that happens because of your research. So those are the three things that I think will help you. Number one
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is just not focusing on trying to sell your work. Number two is slowing down a lot. Number three is doing research. 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.