It was a classic brownie recipe, and yet I couldn't make it work. My memory told me that I had made brownies from a brownie mix as a teenager in my mother’s home. But now I wanted to make brownies from scratch, just like I was doing with all of the food I was preparing to increase my chances of living as long as I could. But it also had to be really good, mouth-watering good and I needed to do something that would be amazing – brownies that would melt in your mouth with chocolaty richness, and give me a healthy bonus with the nutrients like dark chocolate, coconut sugar, and grass fed butter. But it didn't seem to matter what I wanted. No matter what I did, I couldn't make the brownie recipe work. Each batch came with a justified complaint:  too dry, too sweet, too hard, too dull. And each time I compared the brownies to my memory, they failed to measure up! This classic brownie recipe was defeating me. My stubbornness kept me trying to make it work, until one day, something prompted me to try a different recipe. I had recently purchased a whole cookbook on brownies, so I had a lot to choose from. Up to this point I had been measuring my success by my ability to deliver a great brownie using a specific recipe that failed each time I tried to make it. Maybe it wasn’t me; maybe it was the recipe that was the problem.  What if I was using a bad brownie recipe, and thinking it was me and my ability as a baker that was the problem? Why had it taken me so many tries before I thought of trying another recipe? I thought I’d try a flourless brownie recipe, which would make the recipe even more healthy and stress free.  The recipe worked the very first time, creating these absolutely decadent deep chocolate fudgy brownies that took our breath away.  Success at last!  I was amazed at what I was able to learn about how stuck I got in the assumption that I was the problem, not the recipe. Once I realized that that recipe might be the problem, I was able to fi