This month I want to highlight an article, The Science-Backed Secret To Rapidly Improving Any Skill, by Jude King. The article discusses how quick and reliable improvement comes from producing results, receiving feedback, and adapting. This lesson applies to all aspects life – our personal skills, our products, and our businesses; we often see this principle applied in business as “fail fast” and “Minimum Viable Products.” History shows that failure is a required pit stop on the path to success, and the best possible outcomes of any failure are durable learnings we apply going forward.

https://medium.com/swlh/the-science-backed-secret-to-rapidly-improving-any-skill-530e573aa546

“On the first day of the class, the ceramics teacher divided the class into two groups. All those on the left side of the class, he announced, would be graded solely on the quantity of work they produced, all those on the right solely on its quality.

When grading time came, the results were surprising but emphatic: The works of highest quality, the most beautiful and creative designs, were all produced by the group graded for quantity.”