We got 100 sheets of dried Gopchang laver (Gim) as a Lunar New Year holiday present. It has this great touch of sweetness at the end of the bite, yet chewing it is not very pleasant because it is just dried, not roasted. After agonizing over it for a while, I decided to roast them all, all at once. It’s just one day’s work, and it will be good for the next several days or weeks.
Standing in the kitchen, I roast one sheet of laver at a time in a pan. With the heat spreading through the whole sheet, it turns from brownish to dark greenish. One by one, those laver sheets stack up on the plate.
It feels like such a waste of time. I mean, really, yet I’ve got a plan.
With earbuds in my ears, I listen to English audiobooks while roasting laver. Time rather flies by as I enjoy listening to my current audiobook, “Market Wizards”. Focusing on the color changes of the laver makes me miss words from time to time, yet I take this obstacle as an opportunity to hone my multitasking audiobook listening skills while roasting laver with the least amount of consciousness.
As roasted, crunchy laver piles up, investment insights pile up in my brain (hopefully).
Avoid the work you can’t enjoy, and make the unavoidable work somehow useful.
Today, it’s another success in that way.