Along the course of life, our mind becomes uniquely ours; for better or for worse… I’ll get straight into an anecdote. One of my all time favorite things to eat is sausage, egg, and cheese on an everything bagel or english muffin. Thing is, I could only ever order such a thing at a convenience store or café.
Sometime along, I thought I should just buy a pack of frozen sausage patties so I could easily make my own tasty breakfast sandwich at home. I would usually just use ham at home, but the sausage was something I wanted to be more accessible and not have to buy it at a premium. Though I never did find any sausage patties, so I let the idea go.
I do buy ground sausage from time to time, so one day while I was preparing to cook a package of sausage in a frying pan, I realized I could simply form it into the shape of a patty; just like you would a burger. Amateur thinking, I know. Anyway, it made for quite the breakfast sandwich that morning.
We each have our strong suits- skills/areas of expertise we got a head start on in life. Perhaps our parents are chefs and they allowed us to learn from them in the kitchen from a young age (not the case for me).
I got my start in learning how to properly cook in my early 20’s thanks to my girlfriend at the time. To this day, I continue to learn what works best in the kitchen, though I stick to a few of the same meals most of the time.
Cooking aside, it goes to show that we have limits in our mind no matter what, whether we notice them or not. When I first wanted to make my own sausage breakfast sandwiches, not once did I think about forming my own patties.
This may not be the most prime example of thought patterns/patterns of purchase, but my point is that perhaps it’s worthwhile to do something different here and there. Talk to different people about everyday aspects of life. How do you do this, how do you do that? I find we all do any such thing in the only way we know how.
That is either the way we learned from somebody, or simply the way we figured out how to do it; which is likely not the “right” way. Even if we think our daily patterns are fine, it’s good to mix it up, even to try out something new that we hadn’t thought of before.
That being said, how do you cook your favorite breakfast?
Let me know if you have any ideas that I should try out to break my patterns 😉
Picture from a few days ago unrelated…
But do you see the infinity symbol in the ripples?
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