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Supposedly —

“Yes, the ‘ceramics story’ in ‘Art & Fear’ is indeed true, allowing for some literary license in the retelling. Its real-world origin was as a gambit employed by photographer Jerry Uelsmann to motivate his Beginning Photography students at the University of Florida.

(See the notes in "Atomic Habits" "The Danger of Aiming for Perfection" — "As retold in ‘Art & Fear’ it faithfully captures the scene … except I replaced photography with ceramics as the medium being explored.")

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What would we need to do to make the photography course an experiment rather than a parable?