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Originally Posted by wayner
I'm a really ****ty cook.
I've always been a ****ty cook, even though in high school I was paid to be a cook
I could take cooking lessons but I would still be a ****ty cook.
I'm not going to improve my cooking, I'm going with my strengths and making more than enough money to pay somebody else to cook. Cooking slows me down and even I became the best cook I could be, you wouldn't want to eat it, so cooking is off my list of things to improve. In fact there are many things that I'm not going to try to get any better at because it wouldn't make much of a difference and I would still struggle,to do those things well. I've accepted that.
Too many people try to be the best at things they are not suited for. Find your fit.
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This is a case of internal interest and life circumstance which doesn't make cooking a good fit for you. You could be a journeyman cook as it is a learned skill, but to have the touch requires a love for and being in an environment conducive to becoming a talented..or artistic cook if you will...having that certain knack.
I like to cook and cook well, I like to do it (that is the internal)..my Dad always said he would like to have cooked better, he had a BS degree in Chemistry being interested since boyhood. What does a Chemist do but mix chemicals together to achieve a desired result, what does a cook do but mix foods (ingredients) together to achieve a tasty food. The external lifes circumstance for me is that my Dad mixed things together to get a desired result. My way of being a Chemist is by being a cook. Different genres but essentially the same process is at work.
The other factor is that my Dad had an analytic ability which he applied in a quantitative scientific fashion. I have applied the same learned through him analytic ability to the qualitative ability to discern personality and the human dynamic. In my own way I have made human behavior into a science. It is all process and mechanism an equation if you will.
Here chaos is a constant variable, but once you can see through that haze People become very predictable,