#repetition

#repetition

If you'd rather eat a 5'x7' rug than have to figure out what to make for dinner again, you're not alone, my friend. But what if... hear me out... what if we're making this whole meal planning thing a lot harder than it has to be? That's what creator Evelyn Ngugi, also known as Evelyn From the Internets or @myinternetcousin on TikTok, thinks may be the case. In a recent video, she posits that Americans' tendency to want to globe-trot through a week of meals is making it way harder to shop and cook than it should be.

The one piece of advice I have given all of them is this: "Rehearse! Rehearse! Rehearse!" I give this advice because no one taught it to me; I had to learn it the hard way. When I first started learning public speaking in a Toastmasters club, I was locked to the lectern. I was so nervous that I grasped the sides in a white-knuckle death grip and read my speeches from notes.

But you can hit a million shots on the driving range or in front of a mirror. It's possible to replicate conditions and practice your swing over and over and over again. To a certain degree, you can practice golf in a vacuum. In surfing, you cannot. There is a magical, confounding component so elusive and finite that it adds to the sport's seduction.

By the time my son got bored with the whole exercise, earlier this year, we'd become ramp experts, capable of seeing untapped ramp potential in almost any random object.