Our best work emerges during periods of high productivity.

Well, what does this mean?

I remember growing up and hearing the phrase quality over quantity.

Right? The implication being that we should focus on the quality the phrase quality over quantity, right?

The implication being that we should focus on the quality of the task,

that one good painting or drawing outweighs multiple paintings

or drawings that are done in less time with less precision.

And on the surface, that makes sense, right?

Why would you want anything but optimal output?

And I adopted this philosophy, and I hadn't really thought about it much until I came

across a study mentioned by James Clear, who's the author of Atomic Habits.

And in this study, it was a photography professor at the University of Florida, and he

divided his photography students into two groups, the left side of the room and the right

side of the room.

The left side of the room would be the quantity group, which means they'd be graded on the number of photos they took.

So 100 photos would be an A, 90 would be a B, so on and so on.

The right side of the room would be the quality group.

They would be graded on how good their work was, but they only had to produce

one photo in the semester, right? It had to be a pretty much immaculate picture. And at the end of

the term, the professor was surprised to find that the left side or the quality group, the group

that produced over and over again, had far better

pictures than the right side that only had to produce one. Because through that process, they

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