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Being too ambitious is a clever form of self-sabotage

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763 points alihm | 1 comments | 04 Jul 25 21:11 UTC | HN request time: 0.205s | source
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gcanyon ◴[05 Jul 25 13:45 UTC] No.44472777[source]▶
> At semester's end, all the best photos came from the quantity group.

My parents once owned a photography studio. My stepfather often said something like, "A great photographer doesn't only take great photos; he takes many photos of various quality, and never shows anyone the bad ones."

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1. satyrun ◴[05 Jul 25 15:46 UTC] No.44473535[source]▶
Exactly.

If you look at a book of Picasso's drawings/paintings he has thousands of examples of half finished, complete shit.

The masterpieces are the result of picking the best output.