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In a past life, you wereMaster Celadon Potter of Goryeo

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 — a color so prized that visiting Chinese envoys wrote home about it. If the shade was even slightly off, you reached for 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; it was a piece of the sky. Your failures far outnumbered your finished works, but what the world remembers is the masterpieces.

• Standards: high. Way too high.
• Slow, but finishes things properly
• Quietly, extremely stubborn

Advice for this life — Stopping at attempt ninety-nine can still be beautiful.