The 4-Hour Chef: The Simple Path to Cooking Like a Pro, Learning Anything, and Living the Good Life
Timothy Ferrissamazon.com
The 4-Hour Chef: The Simple Path to Cooking Like a Pro, Learning Anything, and Living the Good Life
Reducing: How to learn 1,945 Japanese7 characters. Interviewing: How to shoot a basketball 3-pointer. Reversal: How to build unparalleled fires. Translating: How to dissect the grammar of any language in 1–2 hours.
Mindmap linkages and sequence of process
by the private chef of UFC fighter Georges St-Pierre. It’s also the top recommended chef’s knife on the site Cooking for Engineers, authored by Michael Chu, who subjected knives to extensive vegetable testing (fourhourchef.com/chef-knives-rated).
Dave had what other coaches didn’t: a logical sequence.
Here are the 12 sentences, the “Deconstruction Dozen”: The apple is red. It is John’s apple. I give John the apple. We give him the apple. He gives it to John. She gives it to him. Is the apple red? The apples are red. I must give it to him. I want to give it to her. I’m going to know tomorrow. (I have eaten the apple.)16 I can’t eat the apple.
Sometimes, whether in the world of fire-making or cooking, finding the path of least resistance is as easy as Googling “backward,” “upside-down,” or “reverse,” plus whatever skill you’re deconstructing.
Googling reverse Chinese learning
“Take risks and you’ll get the payoffs. Learn from your mistakes until you succeed. It’s that simple.
First and foremost, it is where we answer the question: how do I break this amorphous “skill” into small, manageable pieces?
• Ratatouille (USA)— Pixar rules. ’Nuff said. • Julie & Julia (USA)—Though a controversial film among foodies, it is a must-see for any new cooking student, in my opinion. • Eat Drink Man Woman (Taiwan, USA)— This wonderful movie is worth watching just for the intro sequence. I love Taiwan and Taiwanese food. • Tampopo (Japan)—A Japanese Amélie
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