My favourite cooking recipe � Glowleaf

Mar 09

My favourite cooking recipe

Lets do some authoring here. Pick a skill. Any skill. I’ll take cooking as an example. At first, you dont know anything about cooking. You pick up a cookbook for dummies, you learn the basics. You get acquainted with the various tools, and the techniques used in cooking.

You try a few of them, you destroy a lot of food in the process.

At some point, you start to get the hang of it, and you can do some recipes well.

You decide to expand, and try to cook something harder. Then something else. As you practice your skill, you get better at it.

Your subconscious starts processing the data as a background process. New ideas pop out of nowhere, your understanding of cooking becomes deep.

At some point, you start to see flaws in some recipes. You try your own ideas, you improve the recipes. The same happens with your tools, you look for better tools for the job, automatic, battery operated, tools that make your skill even greater.

Now, you read more cookbooks, and you already know everything the book has to offer. You read more books, but 99% of the content is already known to you, and you keep only 1 or 2 pages from every book you read. You talk with specialists, chefs, and you exchange techniques and recipes as equals.

People ask you for your recipes, and you start writing them down for others. Maybe you write a cooking book, maybe you set up a site. You may already have an apprentice, who is just now fiddling through the basics.

Being hungry for knowledge, you try to find information beyond your skill level. Books have only minuscule bits of information for you, and other masters are simply doing the same technique they found to be working, over and over again.

You attend some seminars, you read books from foreign countries, struggling to learn something new, something better.

One day, you decide that its a waste of time, so you focus on your own cooking, your own recipes.

Then you reach a breakthrough. You come up with a perfect idea. A revolutionary one. Your head is ready to explode while thinking of the idea’s possibilities. You live at the age of the internet, so you search online for someone to have thought of that too. You find nothing.

That is the turning point. That is the moment, where you must sacrifice everything to make that idea, that dream, come true.

People will call you crazy, they will reject you. They will scoff at your ridiculous idea. Even your cohorts will be tested, some will abandon you. Only the most loyal will stick with you, and help you make the idea a reality.

“You can achieve anything you put your mind to, man.” Eminem

“Only after you master the rules, you are able to defy them” Glowleaf