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If You Want Your Kids To Listen To You, Don't Yell At Them. Whisper. Make Them Lean In. My Kids Taught Me That. And I Do It With Adults Now.

The Very Common Error Of Young Or Unconfident Cooks Is To Keep Putting More Of Their Own Personal Ideology Into A Plate Until There's So Much Noise That You Really Can't Even Hear A Tune. You Can Say More In An Empty Space Than You Can In A Crowded One.

Breakfast Is The Best Time For Me To Figure Out What My Kids Are Doing. Right After You Wake Them Up At Breakfast, You Pepper Them With Questions. You Can Get In There Because They're Not Protecting What They Thought Was Cool: "what Happened Yesterday?" "oh, Matthew Stole My Book And Ran Away And It Was Really Annoying..." That Wouldn't Happen After Lunch, Because Their Defenses Are Up. In The Morning, If You Lull Them Into A Comfortable Place, You Get More Honesty, And That's Without Being A Detective.

Passion Is What Adds So Much Value To Life. And If You Think About The Things That You Do, There's So Much Juice Potential For Them If You Do It.

I Can Teach A Chimp How To Make Linguini And Clams. I Can't Teach A Chimp To Dream About It And Think About How Great It Is.