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Re:The Mental Benefits of Being Terrible at Something by stevekemp on Wednesday May 19, 2021 @01:21PM (#27211623)
I can appreciate that. I can often be a perfectionist in some things, and when I can see I'm doing badly I get unhappy.

That said I started attending a pottery-class at local school a couple of years ago. Objectively almost everything I've made has been terrible. And yet? I'm drinking coffee out of a mug I made myself, and that feels pretty good.

It's unusual for me to both recognize that I'm "bad", and yet still want to go back. But definitely true in this case.

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Re:The Mental Benefits of Being Terrible at Something by datadrivenangel on Wednesday May 19, 2021 @03:59PM (#27213718)
Eating food out of bowls I made 10 years ago makes me really happy.

It was also extremely satisfying over a few years of off and on spinning to gain the vocabulary to describe why my work was bad. Making 1-2 beautiful (but still flawed) dishes was worth hundreds of mediocre projects.

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