Creativefishi Swimming with Words

I’m an average cook, and cooking is not one of my interests, but I watch My Kitchen Rules to see the human drama showing up in competition and against the clock. It is life; there are the friends and foes. And all the human emotions that flares up. It is not bad they serve up gourmet dishes and advice, and the dilemma of under cooking and over cooking. But what makes this show exciting, its changing locations and mini competitions that focus on smaller teams doing asides competitions against each others give them fancy and epic names such as the ‘Sudden Death’ at other times   “Cook off”.

I admit in my previous life I was and maybe still I am to less degree, self improvement, self help, psychology books reader junkie. I read/listen to the good the bad and the ugly from: the flow, codependet no more, the 7 habits of successful people, Freud, Deepak Chopra, Anthony Robbins, Christopher Howard, the 80/20 principle, positive thinking, cognitive therapy, learned optimism, the secret and its variations, the art of war, how to win friends and influence people, feel the fear and do it anyway and many other countless books. What really strikes me first with psychology books and self help books is that you feel the guilt, that it is your fault you are not good enough or work hard enough or smart enough to achieve, you can’t recognise an opportunity and run with it or network the right way with the right people to advance your career. 　 Well let me tell you, I have also happened to be interested in reading about sociology the individual living in and within the larger society...