“Chefs submit to critique As a system of ongoing education dedicated to becoming better at one’s craft, inspect and correct requires humility, a commitment to submission. The chef submits to her responsibility to teach the cook. The cook submits to the wisdom and guidance of the chef. The cook submits to her own discipline and to honing her own processes. The chef submits to maintaining a balance between her own instincts and the wisdom and guidance of the customers and critics. And both the chef and cook submit to the fact that this submission never ends.”
– Dan Charnas, Work Clean
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“Muad’Dib learned rapidly because his first training was in how to learn. And the first lesson of all was the basic trust that he could learn. It is shocking to find how many people do not believe they can learn, and how many more believe learning to be difficult, Muad’Dib knew that every experience carries its lesson.”
– Frank Herbert, Dune
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If we reframe every experience as a learning experience then nothing is wasted.
We can never know everything.
There are always people who know more about something than we do.
Learning, as Dan Charnas writes, requires submission.
We need to submit to a system of learning.
The system is circular, there is no beginning nor end.
We always have the option to ask a question.
Why did that fail?
How did you do that?
What do I need to do to improve?
If we chose to submit to learn, we need to trust in ourselves.
Trust that we can find an answer.
And that the true joy is in the journey to get there.
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