Occasionally in this blog, you are going to come across a passage or two referencing evolutionary psychology; this science is the only train of thought that makes any sense into why we are the way we are, why we do the things we do. It’s okay to call it Divine Programming, or whatever you want to call human nature. I am not here to convert people into my line of thinking, just to share my knowledge and experience on health and fitness and living.
To give you an example of evolutionary psychology I am going to take you back before CrossFit was invented, back to our hunter and gatherer days. That’s where it all started, the differences between sexes in shopping. For most women, shopping is a pleasant experience and they love to take their good, old time. Men, on the other hand, know exactly what they want, and when they find it want to get the fuck out of the store.
These traits go way back. Women were the gatherers and needed most of the daylight hours to find berries, fibers, medicinal herbs to make the home cave cozier. Men tracked down their prey, say a wooly mammoth, team-slayed the beast and had to lug it home before the meat decayed. Yeti’s and other tote coolers would not be invented for another 20 years.
Let’s jump a few millennia to today. A dude wants a battery-operated 40-volt Mammoth drill, goes to the nearest hardware store, stomps up and down several aisles searching for the tool that will make his life easier, weaves through a few more aisles, including the ones he just passed through in case he overlooked the drill. At this point, his primordial brain is boiling like a cannibal’s cauldron because the hardware company does not have enough common sense to place a drill where he thinks it should be displayed. But he will not lower himself to ask directions. Then suddenly he finds his Mammoth drill in aisle 23, with all the other power tools, buys it and rushes home before it spoils.
