[pkhamre]

> Should I learn to make pasta from scratch? No, that’s crazy. Nobody cares if you can make pasta from scratch and it’s not going to make any money.

I think the author got it wrong here. He mixes the words "successful" with "fame". By learning a skill like making pasta from scratch, you can make yourself and other people happy. And if you go deep into the field, you can even make money on it, if that's important to you :)

I started baking pizza and obsessed at making the perfect tomato sauce, the perfect dough, the perfect crust. Basically, the perfect pizza. I do know that perfect does not exist, but I got to a point where I make a pretty damn good pizza. I like my pizza better than most pizzi I can get in a restaurant. My next step is to build my own wood-fired outdoor oven, so I can reach the temperatures I need to get the pizza even better.

Being able to make this amazing pizza makes me so happy. It makes people around me happy. And I learn my friends and family how to make proper pizza. I smile and laugh and dance when I make pizza.

This is true success in my opinion.

And after I learned the baking skills, success kind of started snowballing in other areas as well.

Why are famous people successful? They do what makes them happy :) Why am I starting to be successful? I do what makes me happy :) How can you start to be successful? Do what makes you happy :)

If you think going down a certain path for happiness might seem a little crazy, that's a good sign.

[mywittyname]

Perfecting, or at least very gooding, already perfected tasks is an important component to becoming successful in areas that are not so established. Highly successful people are very good at other tasks that don't make them any money. They might make world class pizzas, be a competitive Tae Kwon Do fighter, have sailed boats around the Great Lakes, shred on a guitar/piano/violin/theremin, etc.

If you become great at becoming great, then your odds of being highly successful improve dramatically.

[shmageggy]

> I think the author got it wrong here. He mixes the words "successful" with "fame".

Reading the article closely, the author is actually starting to understand this. The interactions with his mother, the obsession with approval and recognition. It's a profound fear of social ostraszation due to one's self worth being based on the perceptions of others (as instilled deeply by his mother).

[odonnellryan]

Do you have a recipe? :)

[pkhamre]

Yes.

Tipo OO flour (Caputo Classic), 63% hydration, 3% salt, 5% browning agent (sugar, syrup, malt, or something similar) and instant dry yeast or liquid sourdough according to how long time I got to rise the dough. I use PizzApp+ to calculate the recipe.

I did obsess about making the perfect pizza, and I did spend a year to make the perfect sourdough bread.

To recap it very simple, I think the recipe for success is having fun and enjoying what you do :)

[theFeller00]

Bread flour > 00 flour in a regular home oven. The guys over at the pizzamaking.com forum would agree

[barry-cotter]

> And I learn my friends and family how to make proper pizza.

teach, not learn. Also in English one says pizzas not pizzi. Everything else is perfect idiomatic English.

[jimbokun]

"Also in English one says pizzas not pizzi."

But in Italian I believe the plural form is pizze :)

[anthonypasq]

People like Bill Gates are just lucky they were born liking programming and accruing power as much as some other people are born liking video games.