The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up

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Most of the skills that you use in the book, i don't have. The ones that i have a little bit of, they scare me a lot if you'd ask me to do them. I've probably three or four fish in my life. If you said, we got company coming over a let's, let's want you folay these poor fish, my heart would shrink, my stomach would hurt. And yet, why? Cause your house is cleaned. But that's not why it's it's because people take a problem that is, in their purview, solve, and they solve it. And that makes you big and bad and strong.

What did author and Washington Post columnist Tamar Haspel learn from her quest to eat at least one thing she'd grown, caught, or killed every day? For starters, that just-caught fish always tastes better (unless you've caught a false albacore). That all it takes to build a coop is the will and the right power tools, and that when it comes to homegrown produce, you've got none until you've got way too much. But most of all, she tells EconTalk's Russ Roberts in talking about her book To Boldly Grow, she learned that figuring stuff out to solve problems is more delicious than the most decadent of desserts.