Day No. 37 - A day in the park

Wir haben beschlossen, einen weiteren Tag in „unserem“ Park zu verweilen. – Was gibt es da schon zu berichten?

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". 

Eine Stunde später, ich stehe immer noch, inzwischen total verfroren an der Kasse, schau aus dem Schaufenster, damit auch niemand Hector stiehlt und „schon“ ist meine Frau da. – Sie könnte dir zu jedem Artikel nicht nur den Preis, sondern auch den Erzeuger nennen, sie ist sich sicher, dass keine Nestlé Produkte im Einkaufswagen liegen,  dafür das meiste Bio und zwar das echte, was immer das auch heißt. Danach wird akribisch der Einkaufszettel gecheckt. Meistens findet sie auch einen Fehler. 

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.

Spannend finde ich auch, was Erinnerungen in unserem Kopf hervorruft, beziehungsweise wie selbige gespeichert wurden. Kennt ihr das, ihr hört einen ganz bestimmten Song und plötzlich sind nicht nur Emotionen, sondern auch Bilder in eurem Kopf, die an Ereignisse aus längst vergangenen Zeiten erinnern? Dies können positive aber auch negative Erinnerung sein. Und dabei scheint es ganz unabhängig, ob die Musik an sich ein Erinnerungswert hat. Bei mir ist einer dieser Songs „Sunshine Reggae“ von Anfang der 80er. Dieser Song hat sicherlich keine musikalischen Wert. – Doch sobald ich diesen Song höre, werde ich an ein Ereignis erinnert, was inzwischen über 35 Jahre vergangen ist. Ich meine selbst heute noch Gerüche wahrnehmen zu können. – Ein weiterer Song ist „Father and Son.“ Hierbei ist es völlig unabhängig völlig unerheblich, ob es sich um das Original von Cat Stevens, beziehungsweise Yusuf Islam wie er sich heute nennt oder die Coverversion von Johnny Cash handelt. Die Emotionen sind so oder so dieselbe.

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.