Category — Microblog Mondays

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Burger King is testing the Impossible Burger in the St. Louis area, and if it performs  well, they’ll send it out to all 7,200 stores. I am equal parts optimistically excited (the reviews of the burger have been great) and pessimistically realistic (why get my hopes up before it happens). There are vegetarian options out there when we’re on the road, but this would be a game-changer for us.

I really like veggie burgers.

I mean, I also like salads, but sometimes you just want to blend with the crowd.

What are you looking forward to right now?

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If you asked me three years ago if I liked mystery books, I would have told you no. It was a genre I avoided. Loved fantasy, loved science fiction, loved non-genre fiction. Didn’t love mysteries.

But I went from not liking mysteries at all to pretty much only reading mysteries. I’m currently making my way through Brittany Cavallaro’s Charlotte Holmes books. (They are so much fun.) And Agatha Christie. And I just finished the 7 1/2 Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle. (Fantastic except for one tiny thing in the ending.) And Maureen Johnson’s Truly Devious books. (Loved them.)

I don’t know what changed, but I stopped avoiding mysteries and finally embraced them.

Are there any genres you once avoided and now love? Or vice versa?

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I just learned a new word: Waldeinsamkeit.  It means “the feeling of being alone in the woods” or something close to that.  Which implies peace: finding a peaceful moment while you’re on your own in a dense forest.  Which doesn’t sound peaceful to me… at all.

I’m an indoor kid.

I don’t really cherish my time in nature.  I like bodies of water, so if there was a word in German that captured the feeling of being engaged in a good book while on the beach, I’m all over that.  But barring that, I don’t really crave finding solitude in the woods.  While I am fond of the concept of trees, I don’t spend a lot of time with them.

What’s a new word you’ve learned recently?

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I get the Rose-Coloured Roundup, and she ended the newsletter last week with a quote from Mother Teresa: “Spread love everywhere you go. Let no one ever come to you without leaving happier.”

I am guessing that was true for Mother Teresa — people interacted with her and felt happier after the interaction.  I mean, she was Mother Teresa.  I don’t know if that was true 100% of the time for all people, but there are people who fill others with awe (and subsequently make people feel happy to experience that awe), and Mother Teresa was one of those people.

Whereas the rest of us are not Mother Teresa, and, unfortunately, I know I sometimes must make people unhappy.  It’s an interesting quote, and definitely something to strive for, but perhaps not achievable in the sense that people don’t have a lot of sympathy and understanding when they’re not getting what they want.  Myself included.  I can think of a lot of people I’ve interacted with this week who have definitely not left me feeling happy.

What are your thoughts?

P.S. Spreading love is the opposite of April Fool’s Day.  April Fool’s Day… yuck.

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I’m reading Annie Duke’s Thinking in Bets (which is fascinating), and she talks about how our brains are hardwired to compare ourselves to the people around us, and then create a mental narrative of where we stand based on those comparisons.  She writes on page 107: “Our brain is built to seek positive self-image updates.  It is also built to view ourselves in competition with our peers.”

It reminded me an article that I read a few months ago about why the ultrarich still strive for more money even though their rational brain knows that they don’t need to hoard more cash for a rainy day.  The article asks: “But at a certain level of wealth, the next million isn’t going to suddenly revolutionize their lifestyle. What drives people, once they’ve reached that point, to keep pursuing more?”

And then: “Norton says that research regularly points to two central questions that people ask themselves when determining whether they’re satisfied with something in their life: Am I doing better than I was before? and Am I doing better than other people?”  Like Duke’s book, this is also an interesting piece, especially why we latch onto money instead of other measures of success for answering those questions.

It feels overwhelming to stare into a bottomless goal.  An ever-moving enough line.

Your thoughts?

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