You hear the saying you are what you eat but how about you solve the way you eat?
It may sound weird, but I am convinced that people do these very things. Now as a disclaimer I will say that I don't sit and just watch people eat food, I am not some kind of freak! But I do have to tendency to acknowledge how and what people eat. Let me explain.
When i was little I lived with 2 other older brothers who would always eat first and normally faster then me. When eating I would find myself just watching them eat their food, not if they ate it with a fork or anything like that but habits they would do with the food. So my one brother (who i will keep nameless) would always mix his food taking his mash potatoes and combining it with the corn, sauerkraut and then would eat it all at once. Now I can sense some of you cringing and others thinking that is all normal.
My other brother would take the time to eat the mash potatoes then would eat the corn then onto the sauerkraut. Different eating habits, yeah, but then I started to notice how they handled homework (mind you, we were in middle school at the time). My first brother who combined food had a very hectic way of handling homework and class work in general and would procrastinate till the last second and finish it all in one day. To some of you reading, this is you even if you don't want to admit it. while my other brother would do the work as it came to in and would do the projects he deemed bigger earlier and then move on from there. After finding this out, I started to watch other people and found myself realizing even more then just the order and quantity but also other such things.
Taking me as an example, I LOVE Mac and Cheese and every time I would eat it I would only eat so much of it before I would do the unspeakable thing of putting ketchup on it. Sick right? But that was how i enjoyed it. That single act of changing the flavor would allow me to dig into the rest, after that i found myself doing that always when I would eat mac and cheese.
Now I have always considered myself a creature of habit and will do one task over and over as long as it works and no other way is shown to be as effective just like how I eat mac and cheese. There are other things I notice here are a few I found to be consistent between people. When that friend would put Ketchup on the fries instead of putting it on the side? I found people who do that tend to think a different way about problem solving and once they found a way that works for them they normally disregard other peoples opinion on how they should do it. Eating the food in an order of small to big or big to small? Classic example of an orderly person--they normally tend to separate their food some ways and choose an order. In the same way they will designate the task of what is most important or most time consuming and handle it accordingly.
Sandwiching every type of food they get, either in a burger or in 2 pieces of bread? To be honest this is me. I will constantly put my fries into my sandwich or put my eggs into my toast and such. This habit I found to be a sense of making a task harder, this person has the tendency to stack task to make it harder and in some situations to much for them to handle by themselves. What about you? what do you do with your food? Do you think i am onto something or just crazy? I personally think it's true. Take the time to watch a friend and see if it matches up with what you think.
