A Somewhat Systematic Cataloguing of Systematic Approaches to Everything
Don’t bother with public libraries. It takes too much effort to take out the books you want (because they’re usually only available through InterLibrary Loan, which takes forever, limits your check out time and doesn’t allow for renewing), and you don’t get around to them in time, and then you have to pay overdue fees.
Better to invest in a book, keep it on your shelf, get to it in your own time.
Use cloth bags for grocery shopping, or make sure you use all of your plastic bags as garbage bags.
Carry a cloth bag with you (I have one that stuffs inside itself, a retractable type), or leave a few in your car.
Getting excited about buying soap is natural and normal.
Here’s why…most of your childhood, someone bought soap for you, or soap was just always magically and plentifully available. As an adult, when you realize soap needs to be purchased you can actually begin to enjoy it as if you’re a kid again, which is paradoxical, because if you were a kid again, someone would be buying you soap.
Spend a lot of time and some money on getting your stuff framed. This includes artwork and diplomas.
Using a menu properly can take some practice. There are three different types of menus. The first is a menu you look at while standing, another you look at while sitting, and the third is a sitting-style menu that is short and intentional, like you might find at a fancy restaurant.
With the first type (standing) you are standing while giving your order, and often times you are telling them exactly what you want as you point to it. This happens at Burrito places, fast food Chinese food places, and at street vendors. In these situations, if you can see the food you should trust your eyes, nose, and gut in deciding the food for you. If you cannot see the food, the menu above (or now more down near the cash register) you need to be able to quickly choose your food. If you are having a hard time, stand back from the line so people know they can go ahead of you.
With the second and third type (both sitting) you want to take the menu as it is handed to you, or lift it up from the table, and see what visually stimulates you. Still, the general policy is that you should follow systemsally’s number one restaurant rule, and along with that you should pretty much go to a restaurant already knowing mostly what you’re in the mood for. Don’t go to a mexican restaurant if you’re stomach is telling you sushi. That should be number two restaurant rule. I go to Italian restaurants usually because I want to eat a cheesy pasta dish, and then maybe I make the final choice in the moment whether I want chicken, shrimp, or vegetables. In other words, the main menu rule is that the menu should be there to simply finalize the craving you already had. Never look at prices. If you are out to eat, you already know you’re going to be paying way too much for food you could cook at home for 35 cents.
When you go out to a restaurant that someone else picks you should first follow the number one restaurant rule, be willing to try something new, or if that is going to work for you, most places have a fallback standard that you know you will like.
When you go out to a new kind of restaurant (like you’ve never been to ethipian) let the person you’re going out with make the call as to what to order. But learn the menu so you can repeat when you’re by yourself, or introducing someone else.
Ask wait staff what their favorite dishes are. You don’t actually value their opinion, it’s just that this an extension of the number one food rule, and it often uplifts the wait staff if they’re having a rough day.
Never read a menu from front to back. Always know there is something you have never seen before.
Do not order something from a restaurant that doesn’t fit the style of restaurant.
Examples:
Do NOT order pasta from a mexican restaurant.
Do NOT order a quesadilla from an italian restaurant.
Do NOT order fish (or even chicken) from a steakhouse.
Do NOT get European wine at an Ethiopean restaurant.
Never ever ever ever loose that childhood fascination of receiving a package. Even if you are exhausted in bed if you know a package is coming and you hear a knock at the door you should get up, rush to it and open it like Christmas morning. If you don’t naturally feel this way practice to experience packages in this way.
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