TLDR: Mathematically, you have three levers to create a masterpiece: 1. Increase your average: Get better. 2. Increase your variance: Try different things.

TLDR: Mathematically, you have three levers to create a masterpiece: 1. Increase your average: Get better. 2. Increase your variance: Try different things. 3. Increase your sample size: Try more times, churn more quantity. Out of these three, the third lever is by far the best, because it’s the only one that acts on all three levers: 1. More quantity means you’re going to learn much faster by iterating, and you will improve your average quality. You move your distribution to the right. You improve. 2. More quantity means you’re going to try several things, different approaches, different disciplines. That will increase your variance. 3. More quantity means more shots on goal. Unless you’re lucky, the only way to create a masterpiece is by churning stuff out. … The truth is that the most successful creators: 1. Create a ton. Most of what they do is mediocre or simply bad. But there are many gems in there. People only remember those. 2. Explore many genres. 3. Get better over time. And nobody cares about their failures.