By I am a person who has always felt like a bit of a nerd. I have always felt the need to control everything and I am not ashamed to admit this. For years, I tried to learn everything there is to know about cooking and baking. I have been known to do a lot of research in my own kitchen, a lot of reading when I am at the library, etc.
Cooking and baking is a big part of being a nerd. You see, we all know that we are all supposed to be able to cook and bake, so we tend to do a lot of it just because we are a bit socially awkward. However, we are also all supposed to be able to cook and bake in a way that doesn’t look “obvious” even though there is a lot of it. So, in the end, we end up looking like a bunch of nerds.
It’s all to easy to look like a nerd when you are a nerd, and I find that it is especially easy to look like a nerd when you are a nerd in a nerd’s body. So, I think that it’s worth it to always take some self-awareness with you when you are cooking, baking, or even just in general.
I think I just heard this one the other day, but there are actually a lot of us who know it’s a bit of a bad habit. I mean, how often do you clean your house before you can cook a meal? I mean, seriously, I have a friend who is an avid cook who I think is a bit socially awkward. She cooks almost every meal, and when she cooks I do all of the dishes that she has prepared.
For most of us though, making a meal is just a task. It does not require self-awareness because we are just doing it. I like to think that our cooking and baking habits are more like those of the early cavemen than the modern Homo sapiens.
Well, yeah, but not really. That’s because we humans have a tendency to think we are more intelligent than we actually are. When we cook, for example, we don’t realize that this is just a really simple task. There’s no reason for us to think we are more intelligent than we really are. We are just doing it.
But it does require self-awareness. You may be saying, “Well, thats because you’re doing it. So you’re just as intelligent as I am.” But in reality, you aren’t. We are just doing it, and you may not even realize it. If you think you are, then it’s not just you who is doing it, but the whole world is doing it.
We get this confused with “self-awareness” or “self-control”. While they are indeed the same thing, they are not exactly the same thing. Self-control is about your ability to keep from doing or saying something in the moment, while self-awareness is about your ability to remember what you did and why you did it. You may think that you are using self-awareness, but it may be that you are actually using self-control.
You can be either. To be a self-aware person, you should be able to control your impulses. To be a self-controlled person, you should be able to control your thoughts. The two are not the same thing.
Sometimes, people will tell you that they can control their impulses, but they will never be able to control their thoughts. In other words, when they tell you they can, they may not be able to control their impulses, but they may not be able to control their thoughts either.
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