Saturday, February 19, 2011

What Should I Do?

Coming to fruition out of peculiar brainstorming by the Lebron James commercial http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cdtejCR413c.

Everyone always has advice to offer, but are they the experts?  There are leaders and there are dreamers, I like the former.  Success is everywhere, it just depends on where you are.  People at different steps are successful and on the ladder upwards.  Take cooking, a brand new dishwasher thats faster than anybody up to a new prep cook, to a garde mange, to a culinary student, to a line cook, to a guy chef-ing around town making a name (2 years there, 2 years here), to a guy opening a new restaurant to critical acclaim (Quinn Hatfield), to a guy who made a name in tv without a restaurant but wanting one (Michael Voltaggio), to a person with three restaurants and copious awards (Suzanne Goin) to an institution but neighborhood feel (Batali/ Bastianich) to the corporate (Wolfgang Puck).  They are all successful and in different stages.  What do they have to say, who have they learned from, what would they change, how do you improve?  This can work for every industry in every country where dreams and aspirations are nurtured from a young age.
     1.  Food
     2.  Travel
     3.  Investing
     4.  Opening a business
     5.  Traveling
     6.  Writing
     7.  Making a movie
     8.  Taking a picture

Inteviews, descriptions, the lot.  Career type books but with personal advice.  situations added, if i were blah and blah and could afford school should i go, is it worth it?  how do i get into your kitchen?  how do i make it work?  how do you raise a family? keep a girlfriend? have friends outside the industry?...

200 page books and shorter with different people on the arc of a career taht are successful and some failures.  mapping the patterns of knowledge and improvement of a craft.

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