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Gochujang Butter Pasta (recipe from Eric Kim at @NYTCooking )

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Have you ever been grateful for failing at something? Honestly, I can’t say I have. I’m one of those persons who likes to succeed at everything I do, even if it’s something I don’t like. But here’s the real question:

Does this bring me confidence?

Once again, in all honesty, the answer is no.

As I said a couple weeks ago, one of the things I’ve learned from my coach, Dan Walters (EP 42) is that I have to set aside my ego before confidence has a real chance to grow. And that’s really what my obsession with “success” is—an attempt to inflate my ego, at the cost of real confidence and joy.

One of the things I loved about what Eric says here is that he wasn’t afraid to fail, or that even if he was at the time, he has the confidence to look back and say that failure was a good thing, even a welcome thing. Because what he’d continued to succeed at something he didn’t like? At something he wasn’t meant for? Well, I can tell ya this: we wouldn’t have this plate of delicious Gochujang Butter Noodles. 🙂

You can find the full recipe on the NYT’s cooking page, but you cook some spaghetti (or ramen noodles) and make the sauce by mixing butter, a TON of garlic, gochujang, brown rice syrup (my sub for honey), and sherry/rice vinegar with a healthy splash of pasta water. Garnish with scallions/cilantro (I subbed in parsley).

Joanne Lee Molinaro is a Korean American trial lawyer, New York Times best-selling author, James Beard Award-winner, and host of the Are You Ready podcast. With nearly 5 million fans spread across her social media platforms, Joanne has appeared on The Food Network, CBS Saturday Morning, ABC’s Live with Kelly and Ryan, The Today Show, PBS, and The Rich Roll Podcast. She’s been featured in the Los Angeles Times, The Washington Post, The Atlantic, NPR, and CNN; and her debut cookbook was selected as one of “The Best Cookbooks of 2021” by The New York Times and The New Yorker among others.

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  5. Hey, I know you will never see this comment but I just wanted to tell you thank you. Thank you for cooking and thank you for talking about your personal life. We will never ever meet in person but just know that you helped a very scared kid that's on the other side of the world. I just decided to take a gap year from studying for my mental health and I really needed to hear this. Thank you❤

  6. I dropped out from college a mere months before getting a degree in graphic design. I was the mentally ill extrovert with the shitty household relationships that needed the essential “get up to the place every day to be productive” pattern that my college provided for me. But then Covid happened. And I was locked up in my room, in the flat that I was barely staying at nights, and did ao ever since I was a teenager, with people I loved, sure, but with the same people who were never on my side. I was absolutely devastated, my BPD was rampaging all over my life and body, I was severely depressed and for months I felt like I was the failure everyone around me told me I was.
    My college life crumbled since that. I wasn’t able to catch up properly, even tho I worked my ass off. I can admit that I have failed. I was expelled without a chance to reenter the educational program. It was almost a year ago.
    I’m still struggling with the fact that I have blasted this opportunity. But

    My mind is at peace now more then it ever was, ever since I was a little kid. I’m in therapy. I can enjoy the things I love. I’m pursuing art again. And even though I have failed, I am the happiest I’ve been all my life.
    It’s okay to fail. It’s the way we learn.

  13. I can’t believe I never thought to make a sauce for pasta out of gochugang. I’ve cut butter into plenty recipes with it but something so simple yet so delicious just went unthought of until I saw this. I cannot thank you enough, I have so many new ideas because of this one simple idea 🤷🏼‍♀️😍

  22. I’m been playing softball for 11 years now but lately I’ve hated being out on the field, hated having to spend so much time on it, and even started hating the way I played. I’ve been thinking about quitting but because I’ve played for so long and I’ve gotten to a high level, I’m scared to waste all of it by quitting. So thank you for this video because it made me realize that all the good memories I’ve made in playing softball will always be with me so I shouldn’t taint them with the new memories of me hating it. I should let go and focus on the things in my life that are bringing me to my happy place. This is a deeper thought than I would ever think would come from a YouTube short but thank you so much for making this video. ❤

  33. That looks AMAZING!!!

    I spent 3 years at 18, 19 and 20 years old in such a deep depression and loneliness as I tried to get through a university degree that I didn’t want but felt I had to pursue because no other future had ever been presented to me at that time. The idea that I would fail out of university brought me to such sickness and in my fourth year I left it all behind quite suddenly to move to the west coast and try something new.
    Up until now, at 30 years old, I saw that entire experience as so shameful and myself as such a failed loser.

  37. I want to be a painter so badly, but I have so much pressure to finish grad school and go further into psychology. I love it, but I don't think I'll be fulfilled by it. I'm about to open an etsy and I feel so silly for being anxious, but all I want is to make art.

  42. Get good with failure, you'll do it quite a bit more often than you will succeed. Just make a point to always fail up. You might not hit your original goal right away, but if you fail up enough times, you Will get where you are going!
    Thanks for the content Auntie Jo

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