The Winter Soldier in Romania, French Cuisine, and creating your world for you (weekly wrap #014)
“You can't be accepted for who you are if you're not showing up as who you are.” ”If you are not being yourself, the world you're creating is not for you.“ - Joe Hudson
Welcome to another weekly wrap. I almost didn’t get this one in.
Sometimes writing is cathartic.
Sometimes it’s therapeutic.
And sometimes writing is just a workout.
I’m glad I showed up to get this session in, and this wrap out to you.
I hope you enjoy it.
Something I watched
I don’t remember how I ended up on this video of Sebastian Stan doing an interview in Romanian on a Romanian radio show, but I wasn’t expecting to watch the whole thing and being super charmed by the radio host. Besides the cute and fun flirty vibes between Sebastian and the host, I was really impressed with her ability to keep up an amazing pace in this conversation with some quite deep questions without ever letting the energy sink.
It took me a while to realise that she was actually pretty often interrupting Sebastian with the next question and yet somehow it never felt rude or annoying. This interviewer blew me away. I really was just curious to hear the Winter Soldier speak in Romanian, knowing that the Hollywood star held onto his mother tongue, but ended up watching a masterclass in interviewing. I might even watch it again and hopefully can reverse engineer some of it into my own podcasting.
I released a new episode recently in fact, check it out.
Something I’m reading
How did French cuisine become the pinnacle of all cooking?
This is an old Reddit thread I stumbled upon from a view years on the subreddit Ask Historians. The link is a particular answer someone wrote to this question in some depth. Now I don’t think French cuisine is the pinnacle of all cooking, but I’ve also been very curious for a long time, why is it that when you think of fine dining, The Bear and other TV series and movies featuring chefs and fancy cooking, Michelin stars, etc. it’s typically French cuisine and restaurants that come to mind?
I don’t consider myself a full on culinary buff or a history buff, but this rather in-depth answer covering the history of French cuisine, and how it ended up on the pedestal it’s on, is really fascinating.
Something I’ve been pondering
“You can't be accepted for who you are if you're not showing up as who you are.”
”If you are not being yourself, the world you're creating is not for you.“
- Joe Hudson
These are two separately mentioned - but obviously related - ideas shared in this fantastic conversation I’ve been listening to between Joe Hudson and Chris Williamson.
I’ve been pondering a lot from that conversation actually, taking notes and working my way through it gradually. But this idea of authenticity has been something I’ve been trying to really chew on more mindfully. It seems so obvious, but it really hit me.
Sometimes we make choices to show up in the world in a way that we think we ‘should’ or in a way that a particular situation and circumstance calls for, and it can feel like we’re doing this because it’s what we need at that time. And maybe we do.
But everything we do - every choice we make - is crafting our reality, creating our world. And if we show up as a particular, limited or disguised version of our self to accomplish something we need in the short term, the reality we’re crafting for the longer term is for that person - not our true, authentic self.
Keep stacking those choices, experiences and manifestations, and we can find ourselves suddenly having a lot of good stuff that doesn’t feel like it’s meant for us. And we end up training ourselves in the process to show up as the person who achieved all that, and feel like our true self could not be accepted, because we’ve forgotten how to show up as them anyway.
Let me know if that resonates - or if it even makes sense or not.
Bucky would get it. ;-)
In the meantime, thanks for reading wishing you a pleasant weekend.
Dev