Fired a thousand vases, smashed most of them on principle
You stayed up all night by the kiln, determined to recreate the legendary jade-green glaze of Korea's Goryeo Dynasty โ a color so prized that visiting Chinese envoys wrote home about it. If the shade was even slightly off, you picked up the hammer without a second thought, while your apprentices tiptoed around standards they couldn't quite understand. To you, a celadon vase wasn't a dish โ it was a piece of the sky. Your failures far outnumbered your finished works, but what the world remembers is the masterpieces.
Advice for this life โ Stopping at attempt ninety-nine can still be beautiful.