A recipe is a list of ingredients and a set of instructions that you can follow to achieve a particular outcome. Often a recipe will include a picture of what a “good” outcome looks like. Recipes are not just for food: you can make a recipe for almost anything. For example, Gamestorming is a book of recipes for having for engaging, productive meetings.
The advantage of a recipe is that it can help you “turn your magic into science.” That is, it allows you to take something you do that seems magical, intuitive and mysterious to others, and create a path that others can follow. A recipe makes your magic shareable and scalable.
Recipes are a great scaffolding for learning new things. If you want to learn how to cook, for example, you might start by following other people’s recipes. Later, as you learn new skills and begin to master your crafts, you might begin to deviate from other people’s recipes and start to create your own.
Can you create recipes to turn your magic into science? Have others created recipes that you can follow to learn a new skill?
See also: Flowchart, Routine, Path, Menu, Layer cake.
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