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So You Want to Be a Chef? A Commencement Address

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Bourdain, A. (2996). So You Want to Be a Chef? A Commencement Address. In Bourdain, A. Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly. Ecco/Harper Perennial, pp. 288-294

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  1. Assume the worst. About everybody. But don't let this poisoned outlook affect your job performance. Let it all roll off your back. Ignore it. Be amused by what you see and suspect. Just because someone you work with is a miserable, treacherous, self-serving, capricious and corrupt asshole shouldn't prevent you from enjoying their company, working with them or finding them entertaining.

This business grows assholes: it's our principal export. I'm an asshole. You should probably be an asshole too.

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—p.293 by Anthony Bourdain 8 hours, 22 minutes ago
  1. Assume the worst. About everybody. But don't let this poisoned outlook affect your job performance. Let it all roll off your back. Ignore it. Be amused by what you see and suspect. Just because someone you work with is a miserable, treacherous, self-serving, capricious and corrupt asshole shouldn't prevent you from enjoying their company, working with them or finding them entertaining.

This business grows assholes: it's our principal export. I'm an asshole. You should probably be an asshole too.

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—p.293 by Anthony Bourdain 8 hours, 22 minutes ago