Anthony Bourdain "Medium Raw" (also Good vs Evil)

_____"There is no lying in the kitchen. And no god there, either. He couldn't help you anyway. You either can - or can't - chop an onion, shake a pan, keep up with the other cooks, replicate again and again, perfectly, the dishes that need to be done. No credential, no amount of bullshit, no well-formed sentences or pleas for mercy will change the basic facts. The kitchen is the last meritocracy - a world of absolutes; one knows without any ambiguity at the end of each day how one did. "Good" and "evil" are easily and instantly recognized for what they are. Good is a cook who shows up on time and does what he said yesterday he was going to do. Evil is a cook who's full of shit and doesn't or can't do what he said he was going to do. Good is a busy restaurant from which the customers go home happy and everybody makes money. Evil is a slow restaurant from which the cooks go home feeling depressed and ashamed.”
 

 This was copied from "Medium Raw" b y Anthony Bourdain and used in the spirit of fair usage. The man writes very well and what he has written here can apply to so many other aspects of life...