Take your time or set a time limit?

Is it better to take your time and try and get everything right?

or set a time limit that makes you think faster and blow through regardless if it’s terrible at least it’s done and you get a few variable things correct.

I’m starting to wonder if option number 2 works better. I don’t know if it’s cause I have some kind of ADD from playing video games all these years but I feel like I need to challenge myself better. Kind of like playing a video game in the hardest difficulty.

Whenever I use to play tetris I would set the level to 9 so I could think quicker and learn faster.

So this thread is about time management. what is your view and have tried this before ?what were your results?

There have been studies (I’d need to look them up) that when learning a technique, quantity is more valuable than quality. That is, there have been experiments with two groups of people over the course of a few months; one group is told to produce the best work that they can in that time and the other is told to produce as many finished works as they can. At the end of the experiment, it turned out that the best results came from the group that churned out as much as possible and not from the group focused on making only a few “great” pieces.

The logic basically works like this: you get better by finishing something and applying what you’ve learned to your next project. If you’re spending all of your time trying to polish the same project, you never get the opportunity to try different things and learn tricks and techniques that can make all of your work better.

I quite agree about quantity

Truth is with each finished part you learn something

Obviously this means not to rush things

But sometimes you are also stuck in a piece, so do something different.

You brain from time to time needs new stimulation and it still works on your thoughts

However besides all this and many studies

every person might have an individual learning style and also a negative behavior

trick is to identify what you learning style is and what prevents you from it.

Very interesting and valid points for quantity!

I personally try to prioritize quality 3/4 times when it comes to art. For instance if you freelance and you see ways of cutting corners/ work less hours - that’s great, your hour costs more. However using that cut-corners outcome in your portfolio later will dampen your odds of next employment and might affect your income/salary. After all artists are always asked to present their best works and 10 bad ones do not make a good 1. I learned that the hard way. The key is to understand if something you are working on can help you later personally and if it’s just some quick gig, don’t bother with quality.

A pro for quality is that we only learn when we push the envelope of our understanding. If you limit yourself to your comfort zone then you risk stagnation. When you push quality and inevitably complexity, you also learn how to work faster with simpler things.

TL;DR: If it is practice, speed(paint/sculpt) or quick gigs - respect your time. If it helps with employment then quality might be important.

I’ve found, in myself, that trying to do something multiple times ends up with better work than spending a lot of time on the one piece of work. Here I as thinking it was just my way of learning, that trial & error with many restarts was “my thing”. Turns out I’m just like everyone else. Thanks Fweeb! :stuck_out_tongue:

theory to explain how to learn !

brains are not logical computer as we know of yet !

so each person has it’s own way to gather datas digest it and learn
some are more 2D visual other more 3D spatially oriented
some peoples have only 2D brain and cannot get the 3D in their 2D brain !

so not really one method apply to everyone !

you have to find your own best way to learn whatever it is then keep going to higher level of knowledge or enlightenment.

happy bl

If “quality” is set fixed, repetitions can yield better times to reach the goal. I think this is how it works in most ‘video game’ style tasks: training ‘motoric’ functions after short time of exploring/taking as granted some ‘template’ way to achieve the goal.
Looking for a different ways to achieve same fixed quality goal can but not necessarily lead to improved times later on and certainly take a lot more time while looking for the ways. However, you still learn doing this.
Choose yours.

Balance with experience.
I have learned just…
As quantity rises, quality becomes obvious, skill & artistry evolve. So gather & share gained knowledge to get a sense of what is that which liberates you. Your freedom or slavery (heaven or hell) is made of your choosing, your words, your mind.
If you consider freelancing or any kind of business… When clients ask for quotes, when employees ask for job, when consumers demand a product… It takes time to set a deadline.
Use the momentum, know that more energy in use, the greater inertia gets. While all along in an escort of Uncertainty principle.

Balance well.