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The word craftsman spirit has been mentioned repeatedly in recent years. Some people say that they need to learn from it, while others say that the representatives of a certain country’s craftsman spirit and many such-and-such gods are too ordinary—not as good as our country’s folk masters at all. It’s just that the Chinese people know how to market. Make gods.
I vaguely remember watching a movie called “The Whip” when I was a child. It said that a man used his braid as a whip and had extraordinary martial arts skills. Later, the braid disappeared. In just a year or two, he became a sharpshooter again, and his skills were superb. It’s not that there’s a scientific nature to it, nor does it mean that we don’t understand the meaning of “people can change according to the situation.” But anyway, we just love extraordinary stories. I often hear jokes about being a “barista for fourteen years”. It seems to be saying that if you haven’t made any money in fourteen years, and if you can turn rotten coffee into something magical without even refining it, and you can make delicious food from even the worst coffee beans, isn’t that “wasting your life”? But this may be the opposite of the craftsman spirit. We always hope to get the promise of excellence before we are willing to do it. It is hard to say that it is not a kind of speculation. In reality, although excellence is not impossible, it often requires talent. And the craftsman spirit, I think, is that everyone in every ordinary field calmly accepts the ordinary, but still uses his own practice to strive for tomorrow to be 1% better than today. You can definitely do it if you do it, but it’s best not to expect to do it tomorrow.
Invest time and energy, even if you just focus on cooking, this society is willing to make your efforts not in vain. This is the part that should be focused on in so-called marketing and god-making. Those who always talk about folk masters, would our society be willing to pay an extra dollar for the rice made by these masters? There are more smart people than experts – even if she has been cooking for a lifetime, doesn’t this bowl of rice still cost one yuan? Why… Yes, maybe we have no shortage of masters, but we are only willing to let the masters enjoy themselves in suffering. What’s so commendable about this?
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