Quality over quantity is bad advice

Repetitions get results

Photo by Andrew Seaman on Unsplash

On the first day of his photography class at the University of Florida, Professor Jerry Uelsmann divided his students into two groups.

The first was the “quantity” group. Their grades depended only on the number of photos they submitted. Two hundred photos got you an A, one hundred a B, fifty a C and so on. It did not matter how good…