Julia Child was a phenomenal cook and a TV personality. This is a quote from her book – My Life in France:
Usually one’s cooking is better than one thinks it is. And if the food is truly vile, then the cook must simply grit her teeth and bear it with a smile, and learn from her mistakes.
– Julia Child, My life in france
In my experience, what she said about one’s cooking is true about every aspect of our lives. We are usually better leaders that we give ourselves credit for, we are better person that we give ourselves credit for.
At the same time, we also need to be humble enough to know when we are not good enough or have made mistakes, it is better to simply grit our teeth, accept our mistake with a smile and learn from the mistake and move on.
This is a great philosophy to adopt in every aspect our lives and get out of our own ways and to continue to learn and develop in life.
I stumbled onto the quote when I saw this at a cafe in Singapore.
