Day No. 37 - A day in the park

We have decided to spend another day in "our" park. - What is there to report?

Perhaps one or two more tips about this campsite: there seems to be an airport nearby. You can hear an airplane landing or taking off from time to time. The emphasis is on now and then - so it's absolutely bearable. - But that's always relative. 

As I lie here in my hammock today, I am pondering a few thoughts:

I thought of another topic that I don't want to keep from you. Recently, Torgit and I have started going shopping together. In the past, it was usually the case that either Torgit or I went shopping. But at the moment, as I said, it's different.

I've noticed that our shopping behavior is fundamentally different. I'm still not sure whether this is a male-female issue or simply due to our different personalities.

Of course, since I know my behavior better, I'll just start with that: I go into a supermarket, as a rule (which Torgit would say I have no rule about), I don't take a shopping cart at all, but either a basket or I think I can carry everything in my arms. I quickly slalom through the store, skipping the drugstore, liquor, frozen pizza and other fast food sections. In the dairy products department, I purposefully reach for butter, milk and yoghurt, occasionally grabbing a few eggs. In the fruit and vegetables, meat products and cheese sections, I just grab what smiles at me. - So steaks, salami and ham etc. (In Cologne I go to my trusted butcher) - 10 minutes, 15 minutes at the latest later I'm at the checkout.

I decide what to eat on the way and it's sporadic. In the store, I usually don't know what the individual items cost and after I've paid, I'm no wiser. I didn't forget anything, because I didn't have any instructions. 

Now to Torgit:

She has a shopping app. She will later claim that I not only put it on her cell phone, but that I was obliged to enter my wishes accordingly. In any case, Torgit always has a list on her person. The shopping cart is unlocked with a tool so that she doesn't have to insert a coin. Regardless of the shopping list, she walks through every corner of the store. She calls this systematically pacing the aisles. - In reality, she stops in front of every shelf, especially shelves with things she doesn't know. You could discover something new or improve your foreign language skills. However, as she is not sure, she doesn't buy foreign things. - Every now and then she makes exceptions and claims that peppers in a jar or tins of fish are also foreign and otherwise I would starve. What she describes as systematic is what I call dumdiedumdiedum, just going for a walk, only in the supermarket. I think it's a woman thing, no shoes, no shoes, no shoes, oh a handbag. - But as Torgit is not so keen on handbags, the shopping trip is through the supermarket. She calls it "love goes through the stomach". 

An hour later, I'm still standing at the checkout, now totally frozen, looking out of the shop window to make sure nobody steals Hector and "already" my wife is there - she could not only tell you the price of every item, but also the producer, she's sure that there are no Nestlé products in the cart, but most of the organic ones - the real ones, whatever that means. Then she meticulously checks the shopping list. She usually finds a mistake. 

Then the purchase, at least theirs, is noted in the budget.

Is there a right and a wrong in our shopping behavior? - Probably not, people are just individuals: 

PS: Torgit would like to point out that I didn't mention that I'd forgotten my potato chips and Coke. - Why should I, I finished her chips plus her beer. 

PPS: What we are missing. - Unfortunately, we have not yet found a system that draws our attention to regional markets. We are either too early or too late. But no supermarket in the world can replace a regional market. - Maybe someone will invent an app. ,-) 

I also feel that we, not just Torgit and I, are individual in the way we think and learn. I find it fascinating how differently brains seem to tick.

This is certainly best recognized by how differently people learn. New training systems are increasingly moving towards presenting their knowledge emotionally and visually. As a rule, such teaching methods are developed by people who can learn effectively using the same methods. Similar tools are often used in sales. Here we are talking about motivational, emotional image sales. Martin Limbeck would call it Mona: Motive optimized use argumentation. 

But how do those who are less emotionally driven learn most effectively? It has been known since Hippocrates that there are different personality types. And, as we all know, he has been dead for some time. So what is the most effective learning method for each personality type?

Wouldn't it be nice if there was a learning method for everyone, according to which information could be stored in a brain-friendly way and the respective motivation could be satisfied at the same time? 

• For the results-oriented, more extroverted type of learner for whom everything is not fast enough?
• For those who are open to new ideas, quick to catch fire, but just as enthusiastic about learning in the short term?
• For the steady, emotional, but traditional, less open-minded learner?
• For the conscientious, questioning, rational, but rather introverted type of learner?

If anyone has already invented such a system or knows who provides it, I would be grateful for a tip.

I also find it fascinating what triggers memories in our heads and how they are stored. Have you ever listened to a certain song and suddenly not only emotions but also images are in your head that remind you of events from long ago? These can be positive or negative memories. And it doesn't seem to matter whether the music itself has a memory value. For me, one of these songs is "Sunshine Reggae" from the early 80s. This song certainly has no musical value. - But as soon as I hear this song, I am reminded of an event that has now happened over 35 years ago. I think I can still smell it today. - Another song is "Father and Son". Here it is completely irrelevant whether it is the original by Cat Stevens, or Yusuf Islam as he calls himself today, or the cover version by Johnny Cash. The emotions are the same either way.

How did I come up with that just now? - When we were also on the last leg towards A Coruña, I was torturing Torgit a little with Johnny Cash. Suddenly "Father and Son" came on. The nice thing about it is that even though this song evokes sad emotions in me, they are all positive. Do you also have songs like that? What triggers you?

Insight of the day: We not only feel with all our senses, we also store and recapitulate with all our senses. We don't just think, we feel thoughts.