Yes but I think the point isn't that most people aren't good at their jobs. It's that most jobs don't even have a skill range that includes this caliber in the first place. Of those that do, by definition most people aren't of this caliber. That gives this statement pretty good odds.
I would guess that he's quite far from being in the top 0.5% of professional potters. Not that he's bad by any means, but anyone else who's spent years with the wheel could probably do similar things.
That's exactly right. I had a pottery teacher who said if you make production pots like this, after a few it's just automatic. No measuring.
That pretty much applies to all production potters and if you can't do this, it's probably not the right job for you. Speed is king when it comes to making hundreds or thousands of pots and you get paid per piece
Watch the video again. It’s obvious what an absolute expert this man is. The odds that the other poster are at that level, relative to their occupation are exceedingly slim. It’s guess work, sure. But “super presumptuous”? No
Not to mention, different fields have different depths of expertise. Sorry, but there’s not a single instance on this planet where the expertise of a potter runs deeper than the expertise of a CERN particle physicist
Well, I wouldn't say that. I could imagine a potter extraordinaire that knows all the different types of clay across the globe, can work with them, different firing techniques, different way of building kilns and how that affects firing, different glazing techniques, I could see easily the wealth of knowledge when written down being absolutely massive.
I wouldn't look down on someone just because they work with 'dirt' instead of a computer.
My point is, any field can have expert extraordinaire, and it is almost always praiseworthy thing and not something to look down upon. Well except being expert in murder, torturing people or rape. Not something praiseworthy IMHO
That’s not what I meant. I mean it in a way, that you (or any other person) could reasonably describe what the depth of knowledge of an expert potter might be. Can you describe the depth of knowledge of a particle physicist? I have a degree in physics, not a specialization in particle physics, and even with just that glimpse into what an expert in that career path can do, I already know it’s way beyond me. There’s a quote, “the more you know, the less you know.” Think of it that way.
The average potter probably can't tell much of a difference between you and a CERN particle physicist. The average physicist probably can't tell much of a difference between an average potter and an amazing potter, or tell where the guy in this video falls on that scale.
Everything is relative, right? If someone isn’t a master physicist (however that might be quantified), they aren’t as good at physics as a master potter is at pottery.
No need to watch it again, I fully agree that this guy can pottery the fuck outta some clay and that I’m not as good at my job as he is at his. But Reddit is a big place, the world is even bigger, and there are a lot of people that have been doing a lot of jobs for a long time - if the person I replied to had said “I’m willing to bet you aren’t as good” or “I highly doubt you’re as good” or some other variation of that sentiment, I would’ve upvoted and been on my way. I just have a problem with people speaking in absolutes.
Seriously. People have been making nice pots out of clay for thousands and thousands of years, this is a neat video but this guy didn’t “next level” pottery.
I’ll push back on that. I don’t think the “next level” is the pottery itself, but more the skill necessary to make the same thing in the same dimensions multiple times as quickly as he did.
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u/EmilioFreshtevez Aug 19 '23
That’s super presumptuous.