\ud83d\udc68\ud83c\udffc\u200d\ud83c\udfeb On the first day of class, Jerry Uelsmann, a professor at the University of Florida, divided his film photography students \ud83d\udcf8 into TWO GROUPS.<\/p>\n
\ud83d\udfe2Everyone on the left side of the classroom, he explained, would be in the \u201cQUANTITY\u201d group. They would be graded solely on the AMOUNT of work they produced. On the final day of class, he would tally the NUMBER OF PHOTOS submitted by each student. One hundred photos would rate an A, ninety photos a B, eighty photos a C, and so on.
\n\ud83d\udd35Everyone on the right side of the room would be in the \u201cQUALITY\u201d group. They would be graded only on the EXCELLENCE of their work. They would only need to produce ONE PHOTO during the semester, but to get an A, it had to be a nearly PERFECT IMAGE.<\/p>\n
At the end of the term, he was surprised to find that \ud83c\udf96ALL THE BEST PHOTOS WERE PRODUCED BY THE QUANTITY GROUP.
\nDuring the semester, these students were busy TAKING photos, EXPERIMENTING \ud83d\udc69\ud83c\udffb\u200d\ud83d\udd2c with composition and lighting, TESTING out various methods in the darkroom, and LEARNING FROM THEIR MISTAKES<\/p>\n
IN THE PROCESS OF CREATING HUNDREDS OF PHOTOS, THEY HONED THEIR SKILLS. \ud83d\udc5f<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, the quality group sat around SPECULATING ABOUT PERFECTION. \ud83e\udde0 In the end, they had little to show for their efforts other than unverified theories and one mediocre photo. \ud83d\ude12<\/p>\n
\ud83d\udeabIt is easy to get bogged down trying to find the ‘optimal’ plan for change: the fastest way to lose weight, the best program to build muscle, the perfect idea for a side hustle…<\/p>\n
We are so focused on figuring out the best approach that we never get around to \u203c\ufe0fTAKING ACTION\u203c\ufe0f<\/p>\n
As VOLTAIRE once wrote \ud83e\uddd0<\/p>\n
\u275dTHE BEST IS THE ENEMY OF THE GOOD.\u275e<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
\ud83d\udc68\ud83c\udffc\u200d\ud83c\udfeb On the first day of class, Jerry Uelsmann, a professor at the University of Florida, divided his film photography students \ud83d\udcf8 into TWO GROUPS. \ud83d\udfe2Everyone on the left side of the classroom, he explained, would be in the \u201cQUANTITY\u201d group. They would be graded solely on the AMOUNT of work they produced. On the final day of class, he would tally the NUMBER OF PHOTOS submitted by each student. One hundred photos would rate an A, ninety photos a B, eighty photos a C, and so on. \ud83d\udd35Everyone on the right side of the room would be in the \u201cQUALITY\u201d group. They would be graded only on the EXCELLENCE of their work. They would only need to produce ONE PHOTO during the semester, but to get an A, it had to be a nearly PERFECT IMAGE. At the end of the term, he was surprised to find that \ud83c\udf96ALL THE BEST PHOTOS WERE PRODUCED BY THE QUANTITY GROUP. During the semester, these students were busy TAKING photos, EXPERIMENTING \ud83d\udc69\ud83c\udffb\u200d\ud83d\udd2c with composition and lighting, TESTING out various methods in the darkroom, and LEARNING FROM THEIR MISTAKES IN THE PROCESS OF CREATING HUNDREDS OF PHOTOS, THEY HONED THEIR SKILLS. \ud83d\udc5f Meanwhile, the quality group sat around SPECULATING ABOUT PERFECTION. \ud83e\udde0 In the end, they had little to show for their efforts other than unverified theories and one mediocre photo. \ud83d\ude12 \ud83d\udeabIt is easy to get bogged down trying to find the ‘optimal’ plan for change: the fastest way to lose weight, the best program to build muscle, the perfect idea for a side hustle… We are so focused on figuring out the best approach that we never get around to \u203c\ufe0fTAKING ACTION\u203c\ufe0f As VOLTAIRE once wrote \ud83e\uddd0 \u275dTHE BEST IS THE ENEMY OF THE GOOD.\u275e<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,4,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-95","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-corporate-business","category-leadership","category-personal-development"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaguilarc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaguilarc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaguilarc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaguilarc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaguilarc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=95"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/rafaguilarc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":668,"href":"https:\/\/rafaguilarc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95\/revisions\/668"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaguilarc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=95"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaguilarc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=95"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaguilarc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=95"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}