The 4-Hour Chef: The Simple Path to Cooking Like a Pro, Learning Anything, and Living the Good Life
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The 4-Hour Chef: The Simple Path to Cooking Like a Pro, Learning Anything, and Living the Good Life

Whether you’re looking to quit smoking, lose 20 lbs of fat, learn Arabic, or cook twice a week, the rules of behavioral change are the same. Here is the formula:
WHY YOU’LL SUCCEED—TWO PRINCIPLES I eventually learned to cook by focusing on two principles. Both of them apply to all learning and will be your constant companions throughout this book: failure points and the margin of safety.
Weber Smokey Mountain Cooker 18 ½ " Smoker
Here are the 12 sentences, the “Deconstruction Dozen”:
LEMONS If something is missing, if the flavors don’t quite pop, the easiest way to fix it is with a little acid.
That is, if you found any really extraordinary concentrations of success, you might want to see if you could identify concentrations of unusual characteristics that might be causal factors.”‡
To stem the tide, I have a constant checkpoint posted over the walkway into my atrium: Simplify.
ENCODING: MAKING SLIPPERY IDEAS STICK