Quantity versus quality. A debate as old as time.

Yes, focusing on quantity increases your creativity more than focusing on quality.

Creativity is the opposite of neurosis, just like Smith is the negative of Neo in the Matrix. They cannot coexist together for too long without canceling each other.

Focusing on quality at the expense of quantity leads to focusing more on eliminating mistakes and shortcomings, which triggers neurosis.

That’s why the editing brain is different from the creative brain, and although both the creative process and the editing process will eventually be taken care of by the same individual, it is invariably recommended by all writers, – the only really creative people out there – that each of these two processes is to be carried out during different sessions, not simultaneously.

Also the practice of fixing something to perfection does not increase the total reward that you can get from a piece of art or content. It just helps you avoid getting lesser reward than expected or than that which you are supposed to receive from said creative work. It avoids a negative, as opposed to adding something positive, or affecting the total amount of reward positively.

Whereas Creating an entire other piece of content will get you the same amount of reward.

Why is reward important or relevant here?

It is one of the things that make you more creative. When that creative activity leads to reward, it tells your body that this type of work benefits us like no other, and that’s why we have to become more creative, in order to be more able to carry out that kind of activity more in the future, and produce better results that would easily grant us more of that reward; the key to our evolution, enlightenment, improvement, and actualization.

Overworking on or over-editing the same thing in order to increase its quality at the expense of creating more stuff or content is what I’m criticizing here. Perfectionism itself isn’t bad. Decreasing your output, productivity, or quantity of pieces of content or new stuff that you create due to any excuse including over perfectionism is what I’m criticizing here or is what I consider to be something that should be discouraged.

You see, when you prevent yourself from creating or producing more content, you are holding yourself back, and that feels like punishment for having attempted to create something new. You had to fix mistakes for hours before you allowed yourself to move on to your next creative task or project. That torture that follows creating something new and great every time is what makes creating new stuff get or become associated with pain, because you hate just scanning out ample pages just looking for mistakes, stuff that could be improved upon, or stuff that could’ve been said or explained better or in a better way.

One of the things that makes all this editing phase seem unnecessary is utilizing the no remake principle explained in full detail in the Genius Human, book 1.

You tend to write the thing perfectly from the start. From the first attempt. This makes you always create high quality content without compromising or decreasing quantity or how much you create on average, normally, or per unit time.

Aiming for a better quality is bad only if it leads to reduction of quantity because of that.

There’s nothing intrinsically wrong or bad about wanting the quality of your work to be the best there is or the best possible. The only problem is in believing that producing less quantity of creative work will not negatively affect your productivity, or your creativity long term.