Carole Cohen reviews Instructions from the Cook and finds herself recalling a bunch of stuff, including the famous Jane Jacobs book The Death And Life of Great American Cities. Wow! It’s a honor to be mentioned in the same post as Jacobs:
Have you ever read a book that stays under your skin and makes you think about it as well as ideas that seem to spawn in your mind because of it?
Are you tired of negativity in your city and among your neighbors? Do you feel like you live in a community without the actual community cohesiveness that would be nice?
Have you ever wondered to yourself, ‘there are so many issues that need to be tackled in my neighborhood and I would love to help but I don’t know where to start.’ I know I have. And now I’ve read a book that is both under my skin and causing my mind to go off in what could be some good directions. What is the book? Instructions from The Cook, written by Cleveland’s own George Nemeth (BFD) (@georgenemeth) and Jack Ricchiuto (@DesigningLife.com). You can read about or order Instructions from The Cook here.
Have you ever had an idea about something you’d like to do for a neighbor, for your neighborhood, or something you’d like implemented into City life? Or maybe you have an idea for neighborhood kids or a business venture. It all seems overwhelming but Jack and George wrote this book to show how it doesn’t have to be. And as a matter of fact, they say two important things:
- good things, ideas with longevity, usually start out small not large.
- “people will authentically support what they help create” (page 55 of the book).
- there are lots of good ideas, not just one
- meeting to talk about ideas with people of all sorts of mindsets is usually much more productive than just meeting with people who think like me (this ties into the ‘lots of good ideas’ truth above).
When Jack and George wrote about ’slow and small’ being better than ‘fast and big’, it took me back to how we learn (my education training kicking in). We learn at our best, our most comprehensive, when we start with a solid foundation of information and then expand our knowledge on that topic/subject as we go along. It helps us not live with pre-conceived ideas, but to be open to possibilities…and yeah it helps us retain the information in a way that leads to the ability to be creative with the knowledge…
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