Chapter 615 Let Go of Your Advantage

Seeing everyone's expressions of disappointment, Li Fan smiled slightly and said softly: "Let me tell you a story about the Taiyang Hotel on Jinbei Road, Jincheng District, Yannan."

"The owner of the Taiyang Restaurant on Jinbei Road is called Qiu Changsheng. He is not a local, but from the Huping area. They have their own cooking techniques. The cuisine there is very different from the cuisine here. In their hometown , most of the dishes he eats are very light in taste, and there is a lot of oil there, which is a practice we don’t like, which led to the fact that no one went to the restaurant when he first opened it.”

"He originally opened a restaurant in front of his house and the business was pretty good, but when he came to our place, no one came. The gap made him doubt his life. He felt that there was nothing wrong with his cooking, but... No guests are coming."

"Actually, to be honest, he really doesn't have any problems. It's just that when he came to Yannan and still used his original methods, there was a problem, and it was a big problem."

"The taste styles of different regions are different. The food they make is delicious, but it may not taste very good in our mouths. There is a public aesthetic here. This public aesthetic, that is, the aesthetic of large numbers of people, is often the most justifiable. Powerful."

"No matter how he looks at things, Qiu Changsheng has to live. If there are no guests here, shouldn't he starve to death? He doesn't want to end up like this and go back to his hometown. What's the point? So at this time, Qiu Changsheng had to change , this is also the change he made for his own livelihood."

"From that time on, Qiu Changsheng gave up all his own characteristics, which was making dishes with very light taste and heavy oil. If he didn't give up, it would be like he had never learned to cook and had to start all over again." Li Fan said this At this time, there was a pause, which made everyone think deeply.

There was something in Li Fan's words that led everyone to follow his train of thought.

"Start over again?" Everyone looked at each other in confusion, somewhat understanding what Li Fan meant.

Sometimes, starting over is courage and wisdom.

When necessary, take a step back and start over to get a better view.

But few would want to start all over again.

Because they can't let go of their previous hard work, nor can they let go of their obsessions.

It stands to reason that Qiu Changsheng cannot let go of his own advantages, but he has to let go due to the pressure of life.

Start from scratch, start all over again.

This is a great test for a person's psychology. Fortunately, Qiu Changsheng persisted whether it was for life or for whatever reason. Only then did he achieve today's achievements and today's Taiyang Hotel.

"Yes, if Qiu Changsheng cannot forget the past practices and the advantages of past dishes, he will not be able to truly learn, acquire things, and transform. So everyone should know what I want to say. We also need to give up our Advantages, sometimes this advantage is a good thing, sometimes it is an obstacle to our progress," Li Fan said.

After hearing this, everyone's expressions couldn't help but change. Is this making them forget the advantages of ingredients?

"Yes, that's right. In the future, we can use ordinary ingredients to deepen our cooking skills. There is no need to use such good ingredients to cook. If the taste of cooking with ordinary ingredients becomes better, using our own good ingredients, this dish will be better The taste will definitely be better." Li Fan said.

After hearing this, everyone nodded. In fact, there is no need to use good ingredients to cook. This is an experiment after all. Using good ingredients seems wasteful. When the experiment is successful, just use good ingredients. , and another thing, if they use good ingredients, their taste must be more sophisticated, because if it is based on good ingredients, it is difficult for them to taste the real quality.

In the end, this is fine, and that is good, but the specific difference is not known, so it loses its meaning.

Their purpose is to improve their cooking skills, not to give themselves confidence.

What can really benefit them is to strip away the good ingredients, forget all the advantages, and stand at the lowest point. This is the way to make rapid progress.

Everyone's mentality was wrong before. Not only did they need to work hard, they also needed to work hard to find the right method and continue to work hard on the road to success.

But now that everyone has calmed down, there is still a lot of room for improvement in the future.

Just like Qiu Changsheng, when he came to Yannan, he never dreamed that this advantage would turn into a disadvantage. In the end, he had to abandon all advantages and achieve real growth.

Ordinary hotels should be like Qiu Changsheng's Taiyang Hotel. If you want to make real progress, you must forget all your advantages. Only by lowering your profile can you gain more and more success. Lots of stuff.

This is like a bottle. If you have half a bottle of water inside, you can only pour half a bottle of water into it, and no more. At the same time, if you want to pour more water into it, you need to pour this half bottle of water into it. Pour half of the water out of the bottle, and then pour it back in.

The reason for this is very simple, but who can really give up this half bottle of water and start from scratch?

Anyone who can start over again and forget all the advantages is a brave and wise person.

Such people have a strong heart.

This is also the saying that if you are full of losses, you will gain if you are modest.

Not many people have the courage to start all over again, but now Li Fan wants to pour out the half bottle of water from the ordinary restaurant and receive new water, so that he can have more water.

At this time, Zhou Xiaoman couldn't help but nodded. Their previous mentality was indeed wrong.

"The lower a person's posture is, the more he can get. If a person only thinks about his own advantages, and his posture is high, can he get more things? It's difficult, right? Just Just like Qiu Changsheng, if he cannot forget all his previous advantages and practices, and based on these advantages and practices, and learns other people's practices, then entering the city will be extremely slow and conflict with each other, leaving him no chance. Ways to make progress.”

"Why aren't we in this situation now? Because of the advantages of ingredients, when we learn other methods, we always think about the advantages of these ingredients, which are also in conflict with each other, making it impossible for us to make real progress. This is As a result, the dishes we cook all feel good because the ingredients are good and we cannot make correct judgments. This advantage instantly turns into a disadvantage. Now we must forget all the advantages, rise from the ground, study painstakingly again, and start all over again. , Only in this way can we get the real thing, the sea is open to all rivers, and tolerance is great."

"So what I want to say today is to forget the advantages. We have no advantages. This advantage is even a disadvantage, because by then, people will be able to taste your cooking skills, and then your true colors will really be revealed." Li Fan said in a low voice.

After hearing this, everyone nodded. Now they all understood what Li Fan meant. Li Fan said these words without any malice or harshness. He was just correcting everyone's thinking patterns and introducing better ideas. thinking.

So they can understand what Li Fan said.

"Yes, Li Fan is right. We are now equivalent to standing on the shoulders of giants. How can we climb on the shoulders of giants with our own strength? It doesn't make any sense. Sometimes this advantage is really is a disadvantage, and the disadvantage will soon turn into an advantage." Zhou Xiaoman nodded and said.

"Yes, disadvantages can be turned into advantages. Sad soldiers will win, and arrogant soldiers will lose. This is the truth. So if we have disadvantages, it is not necessarily a bad thing. Because it is not a disadvantage in the food competition. If we have advantages, it is not necessarily a good thing. It will affect us to improve our cooking skills before the food competition. Blessings and misfortunes depend on it, and misfortunes and blessings lie on it. These can all be changed. It depends on what you think. Sometimes you must have a positive attitude. Face all disadvantages, because you cannot let the disadvantages expand, and face all advantages with a negative attitude, because these advantages are the key to hindering your progress."

"This mentality and thinking model must be adjusted well. This is the key to our victory. Let's talk about Qiu Changsheng. He suffered a huge blow and his advantage turned into a disadvantage. Let him learn some practices that he has never done and looks down on. How big a blow will this have on him? I can't imagine, but now the situation is in front of you. Either you pack up and go home, or you forget all the advantages and start over again. In the end, they really start over again. The results were also very good. It was as if he had learned cooking skills all over again. First, he was able to become a local cuisine in Yannan. When he opened a restaurant, there were customers, so there would be no customers. Then, his cooking skills naturally became better and better. With more and more refinement, their Taiyang Hotel has completely established a foothold in Yannan."

"Then they haven't forgotten their previous advantages. After improvement, they have the current secret recipe of oil sauce. This is their hard work for several years. Now their dishes have their own style, which is different from the normal local Yannan cuisine. It has more heavy oil than local cuisine, but it is also different from their hometown cuisine. It has a much heavier taste than their hometown cuisine. Moreover, the oil has also been improved. After his improvement, there is no longer any flavor under the heavy oil. The previous disadvantages have been well hidden, and what remains is the real advantage.”

"So Qiu Changsheng's Taiyang Hotel is a model of success. Qiu Changsheng is also a model of success for us. No matter what he does, he puts down all his advantages and starts over from scratch. He started from training his taste and got to where he is today step by step. First, he followed I learned a lot and made our authentic hometown dishes from Yannan, and improved on my previous advantages. This is how Taiyang Restaurant is today. I talked a lot with him today, and I really benefited a lot. In fact, I just want to I have nothing else to say when I relay what I learned today to you. I just hope that we can adjust our mentality and thinking mode, find the right method through hard work, make reasonable use of our advantages and disadvantages, and achieve better results in the food competition. That's the ranking." Li Fan said, bowing deeply to the folks in the hotel.