This is how to deal with annoyances, frustrations, and setbacks. 😤➡️😎
Plus . . . Olympic innovation and Korean fire chicken!
1. WHY NOT? An idea for the Olympics: Intergenerational relays! 🏃🏿♂️🏅🏃🏼♀️
Happy 2024 Olympics, everyone. So far the Games have been great. But could they be even better?
That’s the topic of my latest Washington Post column — which offers a few proposals for modernizing (and perhaps electrifying) the Olympics. Among them:
Olympic Cooking (Top Chef meets Eurovision meets March Madness!)
Relay teams with 4 competitors of different ages (under age 20, age 20-39, age 40-60, 60+) to bust stereotypes about older athletes.
Allowing every citizen of the world to participate and represent their home country in an online competition.
You can read the full column here or by clicking the image below.
Discover more about the Washington Post Why Not? project:
Read the column that lays out our core principles: Openness over cynicism. Curiosity over certainty. Conversation over conversion.
Contribute your own bold idea. Readers have already submitted more than 5,100 of them. Share yours by using this WaPo link or emailing me directly at whynot@danielpink.com.
2. PINK RECOMMENDS. Food and Drink Edition! 🥘🔥🍸🥜
Instead of the usual grab bag of READ-WATCH-LISTEN-TRY recommendations, today we have an actual theme!
READ: I love just about every type of food (except cilantro, which is the devil’s creation.) But my favorite cuisine is Korean. And this is my favorite Korean cookbook — written by the great Eric Kim, full of outstanding recipes, and joy to read.
WATCH: YouTube is a great source of culinary know-how. And few YouTubers do it better than Maangchi, whose recipe for cheese buldak (spicy fire chicken with cheese) I’ve made roughly a gazillion times.
LISTEN: Spirits and cocktails aren’t for everyone. But if those are your jam, as they are mine, you’ll enjoy the Life Behind Bars podcast, hosted by two bartending gurus. (Their book, The Oxford Companion to Spirits and Cocktails, is also excellent.)
TRY: Like any self-respecting son of the midwest, I love peanut butter. But I always avoided “natural” peanut butter, because the pool of oil that collects at the top is so annoying. Then I learned a solution: Store the jar upside down. You’re welcome. (HT: Dave Pell)
3. FINAL THOUGHTS. This is how to deal with annoyances, frustrations, and setbacks. 🧘🏽♂️🧠
Ever had a bad day? The kind where everything goes wrong and you’re ready to howl to the heavens?
This Pinkcast, featured on our new Daniel Pink TV YouTube channel, offers a simple technique for responding.
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