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A small practice for the second serving

A practical exercise: Record what changed in the plate or the eater's preference.

Original practice · Optional exercise · The table as a notebook

Choose a low-stakes example you can change without affecting another person’s private information or commitments.

  1. Describe the current situation in one sentence. The example here is: A dish feels different on the second helping.
  2. Record what changed in the plate or the eater's preference.
  3. Compare the result with the difficulty you named. Write one concrete observation.
  4. Keep, adapt, or stop the experiment. A note about why you stopped is a valid result.

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