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#54 Have the Intention to improve your pottery
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On this episode of Shaping Your Pottery we talk about having the intention to improve your pottery.
Without the intention to actually to improve your pottery your pottery will just be good rather then great. And it could be the difference between your pottery getting sold or not
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Transcript
Introduction to Intentional Pottery
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What is up everybody and welcome to shaping your pottery with Nick Torres. On this episode you are going to be learning about having an intention to improve your pottery and how that is going to see a lot of growth if you do it this way.
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I really wanted to get good at pottery because I just loved it so much. I wanted to make everything. I wanted to be able to sell my pottery. I wanted to just get good enough so that my pottery can sell.
Daily Practice and Mindset for Pottery
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And so what I did every single day, pretty much for like three months, four months,
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I was literally just obsessed with making pottery and I was literally researching on YouTube, finding the best ways for myself to make pottery so it's easier for me and I was making pottery almost every single day as long as I could and during this time
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I had the intention of improving my pottery, making it look better than the last one. Each piece should look better than the last one I was saying to myself. And I had that intention of improvement rather than, oh, what am I going to make today? And I had that intention of how can I improve my pottery? And this helped me so much later on because in the book Atomic Habits, it explains it the best.
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But I'll give you a little bit of quick recap here. In that book, it is said that success grows by 1% each time.
The 1% Improvement Concept in Pottery
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You just have to have the right habits to enforce that 1%. And that 1% ends up stacking on each other. So 1% turns to 2, 2 turns to 4, 4 turns to 8, and so on and so forth. And this helps a lot.
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when you are trying to make your pottery because if you have the intention of trying to improve your pottery, then you're going to go a lot further than someone else that is just trying to make just for fucks sake. Now, if you are really struggling with trying to improve your pottery, I want you to ask yourself this question. Are you going in with the attention to improve your pottery or are you just going into
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make pottery because that's a big difference there you may be putting in a lot of repetitions but are you going in the intention to actually improve your pottery if you're not then you really should start doing that you should start focusing it on more how how can i improve my pottery rather than just making because this is where our voice is really going to start developing if you
Enhancing Pottery Skills with Intentional Focus
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Put in those intentional reps, other than just random repetitions. If you put in the intentional reps, then you are going to grow a lot more and grow a lot faster. If you don't have those intentional reps, then you're just going to have like a mindless, mindless work hour to whatever. It's just going to be mindless. And then each piece doesn't look better than the last.
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So if you have that intention beforehand that what am I going to work on today? Oh, I'm going to work on my shapes today. My shapes have been a little bit lacking and I'm going to work on my shapes today. So if you focus in on that intention of trying to improve just one thing, it doesn't have to be a lot. You can just improve one thing at a time and your progress is going to stack on next on the next on next on next.
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And that's how you're going to be able to get better at pottery. That's how you're going to develop your voice by having the intention to get better, to improve. And that's what we want. We want the intention to improve.
The Power of Intentional Repetition
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So if you are struggling right now to make pottery, have the intention to improve. Focus in on one thing at a time. Maybe if you're struggling with centering, focus in on that and then move on to the next one.
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I promise you that your success and your pottery progress will start stacking on one another and soon enough
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you're gonna be making some really amazing pottery, like you're gonna be making some seven inch vases or maybe like a three foot vase.
Discover Your Unique Pottery Voice
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It doesn't matter, you're gonna be making some incredible pottery as long as you put in the reps with the intention of improving. Thanks for listening to this episode of Shaping Your Pottery. If you would like to learn how to discover your voice, I put together a free six step guide that will help you discover your voice and so that you can make your pottery stand out.
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go to shapingyourpottery.com forward slash voice to get this free guide.