To succeed like your role model, follow their methods exactly without mixing in advice from others. The speaker uses a chocolate chip cookie recipe as a metaphor: combining ingredients from different sources ruins the result, just like blending John Wetmore's approach with Jonathan Young's will fail.
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If you want to grow up and be like John Wetmore, you need to do everything John Wetmore tells you to do and don't try to change any of it. If John Wetmore was making chocolate chip cookies, he has proven that his chocolate chip cookie recipe is delicious. Jonathan Young also has a chocolate chip cookie recipe. But even if you take my sugar and your flour and my baking soda and your baking powder, you do it at my temperature but your time, those cookies are going to come out tasting like shit. Bro, find it is the person that you want to be like. And copy everything that they do. Don't you dare try to do it any different than the way that they do it, because if you want your cookies to taste like theirs, you need to copy their recipe line for line. Don't steal a little bit of mine and a little bit of yours. You don't do that. Just pick a recipe because they both taste good. Actually early, dude, like holy moly.