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Learn Through Repeated Attempts
Sean uses an illustrative pottery story to contrast learning through repeated attempts with trying to perfect a first version. This is a teaching metaphor, not a verified experiment.
IN THE CLIP
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A class, where the teacher gave two teams an objective. One, make the perfect piece of pottery. The other one make as much pottery as you possibly can, and gave them a set amount of time. The one whose pottery was aesthetically more pleasing, stronger, stood the test of time, was more differentiated, what people wanted more, was the iteration loops, not the one that tried to get it perfect on the 1st shot.
Recorded February 2026.
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