My son cooked us a wonderful “Cape Cod” style birthday dinner last night with grilled oysters and homemade lobster rolls as we watched the opening ceremonies at the Olympics. For dessert his fiancé made “chipwiches,” which are chocolate chip cookies broken in half with vanilla ice cream placed in the middle.
And we observed if you can deliver on a dessert at the end of the meal, it’s like a gymnast “sticking” a landing, it helps frame the entire experience and performance. I said we should call this the “Stick the Cookie” principle. And in many ways it applies to most everything; from how we end a presentation to how we tell a story, from a meal we make to a family vacation we plan – we want to try to “stick the cookie.”
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