Quantity as Strategy: Increasing Your Odds of Success

 This post summarizes a simple framework for creative practice: prioritize producing many outputs to increase the odds of innovation. By treating quantity as a learning engine, teams and individuals can surface novel ideas, accept many low-value attempts, and amplify the few that lead to success and broader social value.

Modeling Based on 山口周『人生の​経営戦略』

Entity	Description
Produce a lot of output	Deliberate practice of generating many attempts to increase learning and discovery.
Output	Any created deliverable, idea, prototype, or artifact resulting from creative effort.
Extremely bad output	Low-value results that lack usefulness, clarity, or novelty and are unlikely to persist.
Innovation	Novel and valuable output that departs from the norm and opens new possibilities.
Ignored and quickly forgotten	Outputs that fail to attract attention or adoption and therefore leave no lasting impact.
Success	Outputs that achieve intended goals, gain recognition, or produce measurable results.
Social capital	Collective value created when successful outputs build reputation, trust, and networks.

Make more attempts, learn fast from failures, and amplify the rare breakthroughs—volume creates the conditions for meaningful impact.