Transcript
Speaker: What is up everybody? In this episode of Shaping Your Pottery, you're going to be learning about making each piece better than the last one.
Speaker: When I was in my third year of pottery, second year of pottery, I was trying to make a lot of pottery. And I was trying to make a lot of mugs because I wanted to sell them. That's what I wanted to do. I wanted to try to sell them. But I wasn't trying to really improve my pottery, you could say, all that much. I just wanted to really just sell my pottery. And that's really all I wanted to do.
Speaker: and each piece kind of they almost kind of look the same always that they had like a few differences here and there but they pretty much always look the same in
Speaker: Eventually, I just kind of got tired of making the same thing over and over again and I started trying to improve my shapes. I started trying to improve literally everything about my mugs. I started out with the handles and then I went to shapes and then I went to rim and then I went to my foot ring and I started getting into the mindset of each piece needs to be better than the last one. Each piece needs to be better than the last one.
Speaker: And this helped me so, so much because when we are in pottery, we tend to forget that we need to improve our pottery as well sometimes. We need to be able to make our pottery look good. And a good, solid way to do that is to make the next piece better than the last one you made before. If you go in with that mindset,
Speaker: it's going to be a lot easier for you to start making pottery that looks truly unique because each piece will get better and better and better and better and it starts stacking. Remember a few episodes ago, I talked about the atomic habits and how success grows by 1%. It's the same thing with your pottery. If you make each piece better in the next one, it's going to start stacking and stacking and stacking and stacking and you're going to uncover your voice that way.
Speaker: So instead of just going into pottery and just making, because it's, I don't know, maybe fun, it is fun to make pottery, but it's more fun when you start seeing more progress with your pottery and your pottery starts looking better and looking better and looking better and looking better. That's why I suggest going in and trying to improve your pottery almost every single time you're making. Each piece should be better than the last one.
Speaker: We hope you enjoyed this episode of Shaping Your Pottery with Nick Torres. Do you have questions about pottery that you'd like Nick to answer? Send them to us on Instagram at Nick Torres underscore pottery. We'll see you next time.
