As far as cookies go, snickerdoodles are simple. Well, ordinary snickerdoodles are pretty simple. But I am, even 
as I write this, eating a snickerdoodle (okay, three) that is exceptional, bursting with truly remarkable taste and texture. They are beautiful, perfectly shaped and cracked on top. My snickerdoodles don't turn out like this. I follow the recipe, but I get ordinary snickerdoodles. What makes these so good?
The difference must be attitude, confidence. The person who made these snickerdoodles knows – I mean knows – she is good at cookies. That subtlety is the difference. You see the same thing in board rooms and on ball fields, in class rooms and in concert halls. The best have that edge, that attitude, that confidence. They turn ordinary into truly remarkable.
We all use the same ingredients in our cookies, in our careers, in our homes. The difference between ordinary and exceptional is small, but when we find what we are truly good at, we know it, and that attitude is obvious in the results.
I wonder if the same is true for pies....
