Hello there! You're listening to the Lazy Genius Podcast. I'm Kendra Adachi and I'm here to help you be a genius about the things that matter and lazy about the things that don't.

Today is episode 239. Five lessons learned from soup. No really. It's winter and most people have like big soup energy this time of year. I have such an energy. I love a good soup.

I wish my kids like soup more than they do, but like they don't hate it as a concept. We're working on it. It's fine.

But today I want to share five lessons learned from soup. These lessons are soup specific. Like in the actual application of these lessons, it does involve making and or eating soup.

But I'm using lazy genius principles to share these lessons. So this is an episode that shows how versatile and helpful the 13 lazy genius principles are. And today we're just applying a few of them to soup.

So before we jump in, in case you don't know, I wrote a book that came out in August of 2020 called The Lazy Genius Way. And that book outlines the 13 principles.

It gives tons of examples of how to apply them. We did a survey a few weeks ago. And one of the questions was how many of you have read The Lazy Genius Way. We had over 10,000 people answer that survey. And like 75% of you have you have read it, which is a may sing.

The book is so helpful. And it is for the record. It is not like kind of a regurgitation of the podcast episodes. It is the foundation for them.

The book is kind of the legend or the guide of how to lazy genius anything. So if you are in the 25% of people who have not read the book, I highly encourage you to check it out.

Okay, so let's jump into the five lessons learned from soup.

Lesson number one. Have house rules for your soup. Okay, so set house rules is a lazy genius principle.

The idea here is to have built in rules or guardrails or decisions that support what matters most to you.

My guess is that for most of us, one of the things that matters most about soup is the experience of soup.

Okay, no matter how woo you are soup is it makes us feel things like holding a cozy bowl of soup on a cold day. Like that is an experience in itself. It's it's simple.

It's maybe isn't going to like cause you to write a song about it or anything, but the experience of soup is usually something that people really value about soup.

Even if you've never said those words before, which I realize is kind of a weird sentence, but here we go. So I would encourage you to have house rules for your soup to enhance its experience.

You serve soup in pretty bowls. Maybe as I say that, you realize that you don't have deep cozy bowls that makes sense for soup.

And so your experience isn't quite what you want it to be.

You know, it could be that you don't have what you need. So a house rule could be that soup gets served in pretty bowls.

Another, this is true in our house, soup is always served with bread always. I have sister Schubert East rolls in the freezer at all times.

Sometimes I'll make rolls from scratch or like a loaf of, you know, no need crusty bread or buy a bag of from the store.

The point is we always have bread when we have soup like it's just it is a rule. It is a house rule. It's part of the cozy experience. And it also helps my kids who are picky,

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