Do You Like To Cook, Read or Flip The Pages?
This seems like an odd question. You can substitute cooking for many things we claim to do.
The example I present here is with respect to cooking. I hear you tell your friends how much you love to cook. They come over to your house and see a plethora of cook books sitting on a shelf in your kitchen and even more in the bookcase in the den. To your friends, it’s obvious that you love to cook.
You get to preparing a meal and burn the potatoes, your roast is drier than dry and the souffle is a sou-flop.
Thing is it takes a lot more than simply owning cook books to be considered a cook. If you own the books, flip the pages and gawk at the pictures of other people’s creations – you’re not a cook. If you read the recipes, the instructions and research the technical aspects of cooking, you’re a lot closer but you’re still not a cook. It’s not until you actually start doing that you can consider yourself a cook. It’s through experience and trial and error that you learn the intricacies of the art of cooking.
Think of your own experiences what books do you have? What websites do read regularly? Is there a common theme?
Whether it’s photography, painting, drawing, writing, teaching, wood working etc. the subject doesn’t matter it’s what you’re doing that matters. Reading and gathering information, learning techniques and memorizing shortcuts is a great place to start but at some point you need to do.
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I have a journal where I jot down ideas and insights that need further action. I also print out entire articles and reflect on what I find compelling and thought provoking. Do I take dramatic actions daily no…I do take small steps weekly and often devote an entire day on something I find worthwhile to incorporate into my life.It’s the small steps Ellie!
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Wonderful post. I think the very first step is the most important. It is the one that leaves behind the research process in favor to the experience one.
I’m not saying research is bad, but once we move into the experience way we can actually find a lot more, learn faster and share more. It is also the path to happiness with our crafts.
True there are ups and downs, but those are the steps we learn to take, just as children discovering the world.
Thanks for sharing this wonderful thought Sherri. =)
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That’s exactly the problem with the current educational model. Too much theory and often zero practice. Still, I love to read a lot of books
“Do you want to know who you are? Don’t ask. Act!
Action will delineate and define you.”
– Thomas Jefferson
Reading and contemplation will give you profound thoughts, but only action will create a profound life. Reading can support action, but it’s no substitute!
Oddly enough, cooking is exactly what I’ve been doing in order to enrich my life. And by some small miracle, the kids have started cooking too!
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Great article, Sherri I am doing, now! That’s why you haven’t seen much of me lately.
I’m actually working on my goals. Yay!
Sending love your way!
Sherry,
Sometimes we have cookbooks because we are good cook, and other times, we are aspiring to be one. I know a friend, she buys smaller sizes of clothes to inspire her to fit in them. Does this work? Maybe for some people but not all of us.
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When it comes to cooking, I’m definitely just reading the cookbooks.