• Improve Quality By Increasing Quantity

    by Alexander Becker on September 22, 2006 | Link

    In order to increase the quality of your work, you have to increase your output in quantity. Work more, produce more, and get more, better results. It's just not possible to produce the absolute best quality on the first try. At least not purposely and not repetitively, that is.

    Here is an experiment: Create and finish one piece of work to the very best of your ability. An article, a song, a sculpture, a painting, a business deal, even the execution of an exercise counts as valid. You complete one instance of each and since you put in all your talent and resources, you achieve the best quality possible. The problem is that your standards are not comparable without proper competition. Best is better than something -- anything, after all.

    • Repeat. Create from scratch, and finish another, comparable piece of work to the very best of your ability. Compare the second with the first.

    With a competitive element introduced, you are able to compare two instances of your best quality and determine which one is superior. No two pieces are of the exact same quality. There will be but one winner. Do not spend time right now asking and researching the reasons for the differences in quality. Not right now. Optimizing your processes still leads to comparable results of ever so slightly, varying quality.

    • Repeat. Create from scratch, and finish another, comparable piece of work to the very best of your ability. Compare again.

    Now, you are dealing with three results of varying levels of quality, each made to the highest standards you adhere to. Imagine making ten samples and you see that still, no two items are of the exact same quality.

    It is definitely possible to bury quality in quantity but to the same extent, it is worth the effort to dig out and separate and recognize the true gems that exist within quantity. Without quantity there is no recognizable quality. The more quantity though, the higher the value of determined quality, which compares to each and every instance produced. Being better than twenty is more valuable than being better than two.

    Monolithic quality and excellence is of abstract value only. Get out and make your results comparable. Your excellence is not compared with other's, it is a prerequisite that has to prove itself only to your very own standards.

    Increase your output, no matter what.

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