One specific thing I hope you noticed about the Stephen Hawking video (in the week 1, The Big Bang, playlist) is the necessity of imperfection.  The point of the demonstration with the ball bearings on the floor of the dining hall, is that if the creation of matter in the big bang had been perfect (so that all of matter had been perfectly and evenly distributed throughout the whole universe, then everything that we know of matter and existence would not exist.  No stars, no planets, no rocks, no trees, no puppies. 

I think this is a great point for beginning art students to ponder, because perfection is the enemy of creation for working artist as well as newly formed universes.

It is often the desire to make something perfect, that begins the self-sabotage that many artists know too well; the beating yourself up because your work does not live up to the ideal.  This of course leads to low production which leads to even more self disappointment.

Consequently, one of the best things to learn as a young artist is the ability to make large amounts of work where much of the work is probably not very good.  Accepting imperfection in your process and in at least some percentage of your production can be a great first step to learning to make successful bodies of work.