The Core

As some of you know I sometime dwell on things that I shouldn't, at the exclusion of things that are pressing... this is yet another one:) I'm convinced that if you wear a hat, you pull it on a certain way, and most of the time, the bill is not perfectly straight ahead, but cocked to one side just slightly. This goes for baseball hats as well as old school hats.  I think it has to do with your 'dominant eye', if you have one. 

I'm left handed.  My left eye is stronger and more dominant than the other one. Supposedly this means I'm right brained.  Whats weird is when I look out of my head, my hat appears perfectly straight, but when I look in the mirror, I notice it is crooked.  That's my angle on things.  It's different than most peoples'.  Are these correlations? Or causalities?  I think if you look at a guy, and he wears his hat cocked a little on his head, I'm going to argue you can tell which is his dominant eye.  And if I can tell that, then maybe I can also tell which hand is stronger and which side of the brain is stronger.

In the most extreme cases, where a person has their hat on sideways, or backwards, I think this speaks volumes as well.  Backwards is punky rebellion... or you drive a convertible. Sideways makes me wonder which side they chose.  But basically, back in the days of Sinatra, the guys with 'style' wore hats that both reflected their taste in clothing, color, shape, and texture, but it was the way they wore them that showed you a glimpse of the inner person.... and I think we subconsciously pick up on that.  And when a person wears a hat they are not comfortable wearing, or even a hat they normally wear but adjust differently, we pick up on that as well.  The body language, and mental outlook expressed on the face and through the eyes, don't match the angle of the hat.

It's not clear in this old shot...

...but my hat is crooked to my right.  (Usually I wear it lower, but I guess I wanted you to see more of my face for the pic.)  I take that to mean the left eye has more than it's share of the field of view.  Which leads me to wonder about 5 million experiments, or simply analyzing data, to help me understand how the physical relates to the mental...

Any other crooked hat wearing folks out there? Which way does it point? Which hand is strongest? Which is the dominant eye? If you have a dominant eye, do you feel that you fit more into the creative/logical spectrum... or more in the middle, balanced? If your eyes are equal in strength, is your hat straight or crooked? etc.

But remember to look in the mirror because it may be that it just looks straight to you.

...or maybe it has to do with how you got breast fed eheheheh probably that too:) 

...But I also need to add to that other list, that facing up or facing down (irrespective of North/South orientation) would add another round of variants.

... but I would have to think, genetics not withstanding, your world view has to do with your very first impressions of it.  Maybe we need circular, rather than 4sided cribs.  Maybe we need round rooms, so you canter the kid in the middle.  Maybe we should have projectors that can rotate through different scenery and visual learning clues, tied into a surround sound system... so it can be calming, or fun, or educational, or nothing, or everything.

Any other daydreamers out there?

I write right handed.  I use chopsticks and a fork left handed.  (I changed to use a fork left handed when I was about 10 because my grandmother had a stroke and I didn't want to not be able to eat if I had a stroke when I was older.  (OK, wierd 10 year old thinking, but that's what happened.)

I mouse left handed because my right hand got cupital tunnel so I tried to alternate and can't switch back.

Anytime I must aim, I use my left eye.  So, shooting a rifle, shooting pool all done left handed.  (And, it feels wrong to do these things right handed.)

I bat and swing a golf club left handed only because the other way "feels wierd", but then, the person who taught me golf was a southpaw.  I don't know why I bat left handed, but I suck which ever way I do it.

My Dad is left handed.  Everyone else right handed.

I don't wear hats, so no idea on that thought.

Right handed and left footed here.

I play cricket and golf left handed, as the balance of my feet is wrong otherwise
I play tennis and squash right handed, but have a crap forehand and a killer backhand.

Oddly, my father was the other way round - left handed and right footed.

Hat tends to be cocked more over the left eye - which I think is my stronger eye.


There are few downsides to being left footed - the most annoying of which is that when following someone over difficult terrain, they always pick a 'right footed' route - which is a pain.
Being a selfish bastard, I solve this by leading myself and making the whole train of 'righties' behind me suffer instead.