Life Lessons in Making Bread

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Making this bread taught me a few things about life and success.

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First, you only need a few ingredients to be successful. Persistence, patience, confidence… and water.

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Know that the beginning will be tough and sticky. And don’t think you’ll see success after the first step.

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But with persistence, things will begin to take shape.

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They all said it would rise by 30 (minutes), but that didn’t happen for me. So I waited… and waited… but just waiting is a waste of time.

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The environment wasn’t warm enough to rise, so I changed the environment (with a space heater).

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It took 4x longer than the internet chefs said, but patience is a virtue.

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But only when I lit the fire did things happen quickly (30 min in the oven).

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Three times I almost quit because at various stages it didn’t look/feel right.

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But I wasn’t about to be defeated by bread, or anything else I want to do.

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And now I’ll eat for days.

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