I love this concept, and think the premise is absolutely true. As others have pointed out, practicing and just churning out quantity often develops habits and

I love this concept, and think the premise is absolutely true. As others have pointed out, practicing and just churning out quantity often develops habits and bad practices. One way of combatting that seems to be switching up your routine and deliberately avoiding these habits. This article explains a little more on that: http://www.iflscience.com/brain/researchers-uncover-method-learn-new-skills-twice-fast http://www.iflscience.com/brain/researchers-uncover-method-l... But I think it's apparent all over. People who are able to produce a large quantity of new ideas/methods/etc. almost automatically are of higher quality. Take the Beatles for example. The produced a huge amount of music in their relatively short recording history. But they didn't just follow the same patterns, they experimented and look where they got. Writers can be the same, and athletes, and why not developers too?