Picasso, the best painter in the 20th century, drew about 20,000 paintings, and Einstein, the world-famous physicist, wrote about 240 theses. Bach, a German composer and musician, composed a choir song every week, and Mozart composed more than 600 works. The Inventor Edison applied for a patent 1,039 times. Kim Yu-na the Queen of Figure-skating fell on her backside more than 3,000 times to learn one jumping skill.
A survey by a professional consultant of creativity shows that first-class poets have written more poor poems than second-class poets. Since the first-class poets write more poems, they have more poor poems as well. Dean Keith Simonton, a professor of University of California, stated in his book, Origins of Genius, as follows: “The artist or scientist generates a wealth of ideas, and then subjects these ideas to aesthetic or scientific judgment, selecting only those that have the best chance to survive and reproduce.”
It means that people who constantly challenge have a higher probability of success.