Robin Sieger Blog

Having five sisters meant I spent more time in the kitchen as a young boy than my peers, much of the time trying to get in and help my mother bake a cake. However cake baking never interested me as much as licking the bowl clean afterwards.

To every goal in life there are four parts:

Creation

You have to create in your mind the object of your desire, you have to be able to see it and associate strong positive emotions to go with it.

Preparation

Time spent in preparation is time saved in action.

Taking Action

Doesn’t matter how thoroughly you prepare, if you do not take action, then nothing will happen.

Learning

Once action is taken you will learn if it was the right or wrong action, and you can use this information when creating the next time.

Most people I know don’t cook with a great deal of forethought, they are more intuitive or stick with what they know and like. I am sure most of us can cook at least one dish. Some of us may have three or four signature dishes. We have friends around and prepare without too much thought one of our dishes. We have stopped learning, we have stopped creating, we are in our comfort zone, doing what we know, without risking much.

I think life has more to offer us than any dish we will ever eat (with the possible exception of some chocolate cheesecake I had in Vienna once). So we need to Create, Prepare, Act and Learn, because then, and only then do our horizons spread in front of us.

Now 40 years later, I have decided to start learning to bake cakes, not because I plan to open a cake shop, or make my friends think I am having a mid-life crisis, but because I miss licking the bowl, always the best part of the deal for me.

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