How to Come Up With Great Ideas

There's a story about an art teacher who divides a class into two groups. The first group is given one task. Design a single, perfect pot. The second group has a different instruction entirely. Make as many pots as you can before time is up. The first group measures, plans, and deliberates. They sketch ratios, debate proportions, and handle the clay with care. They have one shot, so they treat it like one. The second group just makes pots. Terrible ones. pots that collapse on themselves, crack at the base, and lean sideways. They don't stop to mourn any of them, they just start the next. When time expires, the results are revealed. The first group has a pot... technically. But it wobbles. Before the session is over, it breaks. The second group's first pot is a disaster. But their second is better. Their third, better still. By the time they've burned through a dozen attempts, they've internalized something the first group never had the chance to learn. What doesn't work. Their final…