The rice-to-water ratio changes with the rice. Lots of rules you grew up with were only rules for someone else’s pot.
CREATIVITY
WHAT THIS MEANS
Instructions get passed down as laws when they were only ever settings for one situation. A ratio that worked for a particular rice, a particular pot and a particular stove becomes the rule, and then it fails you and you assume you are the problem. Many rules you inherited were tuned to somebody else’s conditions.
Next time something reliable stops working, check the conditions before you doubt yourself. Different rice, different oven, different ground, different team. Adjust one variable, write down what happened, and build the rule that fits what you actually have.
A QUESTION TO SIT WITH
Which rule you grew up with only fit somebody else’s life?
MORE IN GROWTH, CHANGE & REINVENTION
- Start a hobby at twenty-five and you might be the oldest beginner in the class. Someone has to be.
- Thank the older person at work who answered your hundredth question without sighing. That was a choice.
- The first friend you make after a move might not be your forever friend. They’re your first one, and that still matters.
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