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• Full of grace, candour, grit and humour, Eat a Peach chronicles Chang's journey, laying bare his mistakes and feelings of otherness and inadequacy. Along the way, Chang gives us a penetrating look at restaurant life, balancing his deep love for the kitchen with unflinching honesty about the industry's history of brutishness and its uncertain.
• Buy Eat A Peach: A Memoir by Chang, David (ISBN: 340) from Amazon's Book Store. Everyday low prices and free delivery on eligible orders. Eat A Peach: A Memoir: Amazon.co.uk: Chang, David: 340: Books.

I first came to know about David Chang when my niece took me to eat at his Momofuku Noodle Bar in NYC's East Village in the early 2000's. I thought of him only in terms of the spare look of the (tiny) restaurant and the delicious Asian-inspired food. Then I accidentally came across The Mind of a.

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The basic idea: This is a verbatim excerpt from Amazon's description of David Chang's memoir, Eat a Peach:

In 2004, Momofuku Noodle Bar opened in a tiny, stark space in Manhattan’s East Village. Its young chef-owner, David Chang, worked the line, serving ramen and pork buns to a mix of fellow restaurant cooks and confused diners whose idea of ramen was instant noodles in Styrofoam cups. It would have been impossible to know it at the time—and certainly Chang would have bet against himself—but he, who had failed at almost every endeavor in his life, was about to become one of the most influential chefs of his generation, driven by the question, “What if the underground could become the mainstream?”

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One bold, distinctive and provocative question changed Chang's life.

The right question can do that for you. It can utterly shift the path of your life.

A bit more background: There are a lot of platitudes out there about the value of questions versus answers. They basically boil down to the fact that you should spend more time coming up with the right questions than you do finding the answers.

That's not my point.

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I'm suggesting you should invest an immense amount of effort, time and maybe even money into finding your one life-changing question. And if that question doesn't do the trick, try again; invest another year or more in the same quest.

I say this as someone who is on such a quest; I have not yet found my question.

Important note: I ask a lot of questions, of myself and others. Some are very good. But none have yet produced the impact that 'What if the underground could become the mainstream?' had on Chang's life. So I can't tell you how to find your question.

Fortunately, it's not my responsibility to give you a treasure-hunting map. I'll be thrilled to simply open your mind to the possibility that it's time to begin your search for your one, huge, life-changing question.

May you enjoy the search as much as what follows it.

Bruce Kasanoff is the founder of The Journey, a newsletter that helps you focus your career and life on what matters most.

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