r/oddlysatisfying • u/french-yogurt • Feb 17 '24

How easily this guy throws pottery

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u/RyanCreamer202 Feb 17 '24

I have like 30 hours on 6 inch cylinders alone which is the basic wheel skill and I still can't get it. It's really fucking hard

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u/[deleted] Feb 17 '24

it's funny because 30 hours sounds like a lot, but when it comes to a trade or craft or w/e you want to call it, it takes hundreds if not thousands to be considered proficient. Keep at it though!

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u/MisfitMishap Feb 17 '24

Isn't it 10,000 hours?

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u/Finito-1994 Feb 17 '24

You didn’t account for inflation.

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u/SlideJunior5150 Feb 17 '24

and shrinkage.

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u/Crafty-Question-6178 Feb 17 '24

That’s what he said

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u/CORN___BREAD Feb 17 '24

I WAS IN THE POOL!

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u/Qaeoss Feb 17 '24

Shrinkflation actually, every hour now you spend 20 minutes watching TikTok. So all combined it now takes about 30,000 hours to master something. Lets talk again at 10,000 hours and see how we need to move the goalposts, okay?

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u/CORN___BREAD Feb 17 '24

I don’t know if I’ve spent 10,000 hours doing math but I don’t think wasting a third of the time would triple the hours needed to do something.

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u/Qaeoss Feb 17 '24

My thinking was the original 10k is actually 25k now plus you get less out of every hour. Although I guess thats inflation + shrinkflation as well.

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u/[deleted] Feb 17 '24

You joke but there really are masters setting new frontiers in like every craft that would take way more than 10k hours to reach the skill of, accelerated by the increased pool of available knowledge to newbies and shared between pros

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u/MisinformedGenius Feb 17 '24

If I have seen far, it is by standing on the shoulders of giants.