If you want to achieve something, try a lot — like Picasso.
Over his career, Pablo Picasso created more than 50,000 works. Some estimates put it at over 100,000. That means he finished somewhere between two and four works a day. He is the most prolific painter in history.
In 1980, 1,000 of his works were shown at the Museum of Modern Art in New York. For four months, one million visitors came to the exhibition, and to hold such a massive show, the museum's permanent collection had to give up its display space to Picasso's works.
\"What other painter has enough work to mount a long-running exhibition of that scale?\" — William Rubin, the curator then in charge of painting and sculpture at MoMA. (p.277)
From The Click Moment — The Power of the Decisive Moment Where Luck and Ability Intersect, by Frans Johansson, translated by Shin Ye-kyung (Alki).
If you want to achieve something, increase the number of 'adventures' you take... above all, try a lot, diligently. The author emphasizes that Picasso's tendency toward prolific output worked very strongly in his favor. Picasso couldn't reliably predict which works would bring him fame and which would vanish into obscurity, so he kept taking chances with expectation in mind.
\"People overlook that Picasso was also the one who cranked out more duds than any other famous painter in art history. In fact, a large portion of his works are collecting dust in basements all over the world, and there's a good reason for that. They're really bad.\" — the author's words.
There are many other examples. The Virgin Group has founded more than 400 subsidiaries. Google has produced hundreds of products, Albert Einstein published hundreds of papers, and Thomas Edison won 1,093 patents and ran tens of thousands of experiments, according to the author. Rovio, the game studio famous for 'Angry Birds' — Angry Birds was their 52nd game. There were people who kept trying, and they found the path to success.
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