Every cook needs to hear one thing at some point, and that is that you need to not fear failing. Cooking is all about experimenting, and the best cooks are those that experiment the most. Experimentation is how you learn the limits of your tools, from your knives to your stove, and the better you know those limits the more you can do. It also gives you a better sense of what goes together, as you have a better sense of what flavors go together allowing you to more accurately guess how well a series of flavors will go together.
It also gives you some much needed confidence. Not only can you do much more advanced recipes than when you started out doing, but it also means that you can deal with problems as they develop. If yoiu don't have just the right tool, you will have a better idea of what it takes to adapt to the situation, and create a workaround. You will go from being stopped by a simple problem to figuring out ways to deal with some of the hardest problems you could imagine.
But...in order to get there you need to be unafraid of failure. You need to get into the kitchen with a goal and work towards that goal no matter what happens. If you get a wild hair, you need to investigate it and see what you can do about working it out. You need to be able to charge into the kitchen and do so with a feeling that much kicking of butt is about to happen. If you screw up, so be it; figure out how you screwed up, get rid of the mess, and move on, but at least you tried something new.
And that's exactly what you need to do in order to learn to grow, to get better. So don't be afraid to fail; you never know what you can do when you try, and a fear of failure of is all that holds you back. So charge in! You have nothing to fear but your own fears, and there is only way to overcome them: Cook. Try new things and you may find some great ways of doing things.
So screw Yoda: Trying is an option, succeed or fail. But...you do need to at least try, so get in there and try your heart out!
It also gives you some much needed confidence. Not only can you do much more advanced recipes than when you started out doing, but it also means that you can deal with problems as they develop. If yoiu don't have just the right tool, you will have a better idea of what it takes to adapt to the situation, and create a workaround. You will go from being stopped by a simple problem to figuring out ways to deal with some of the hardest problems you could imagine.
But...in order to get there you need to be unafraid of failure. You need to get into the kitchen with a goal and work towards that goal no matter what happens. If you get a wild hair, you need to investigate it and see what you can do about working it out. You need to be able to charge into the kitchen and do so with a feeling that much kicking of butt is about to happen. If you screw up, so be it; figure out how you screwed up, get rid of the mess, and move on, but at least you tried something new.
And that's exactly what you need to do in order to learn to grow, to get better. So don't be afraid to fail; you never know what you can do when you try, and a fear of failure of is all that holds you back. So charge in! You have nothing to fear but your own fears, and there is only way to overcome them: Cook. Try new things and you may find some great ways of doing things.
So screw Yoda: Trying is an option, succeed or fail. But...you do need to at least try, so get in there and try your heart out!
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