Tim Ferriss: The 4 Hour Chef

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Tim Ferriss’s: The 4-Hour Chef (buy on Amazon) isn't just a cookbook. It's a choose-your-own-adventure guide to the world of rapid learning. Featuring tips and tricks from chess prodigies, world-renowned chefs, pro athletes, master sommeliers, supermodels, and everyone in between, this is a guide to mastering cooking and life. 

The 4-Hour Chef is a five-stop journey through the art and science of learning.

SHOW OUTLINE

INTRO

Why the kitchen is a perfect example of maximising your life

• Become World Class in any skill (1m35)

STICKING TO IT

Postpone each skill until you are ready, and only adopt 1 new behavior at a time

Why do people quit? (1m05)

THE COMMON METHOD OF EXPERTS - DSSS 

An intro to DSSS, and how taking something really big and breaking it down is the secret to learning

• Intro to DSSS and Deconstruction (2m04)

Which 20% of the blocks give me 80% of the outcomes I want

• Selection (1m12)

The secret sauce? Learn the easiest way first 

• Sequencing (1m22)

How do I set up real stakes to guarantee to follow through? Something that makes u STICK with it 

• Stakes (1m54)

OUTRO

Celebrate anomalies and find the recipe to produce results

Why cooking is a metaphor for new skills (1m33)