when was the last time you had a crush
on someone I’m sure each of you knows
how that feels and so of course all of
you know what happens in that very
moment you feel attracted to another
person just because you feel you to have
so many things in common you may not
know what exactly but that’s not
important and you may also feel that the
other person has very interesting
fascinating backstory which of course
you mainly feel fascinating because you
don’t know it in detail
mmm so one reason for the attraction is
your assumption that the other person
yes more or less
exactly like you the fuse lives but
important differences and in order to
get a crush on someone it’s not
necessary that you know so much about
the other person in fact it’s even
easier if you don’t what you need are
some facts some details as rough and
random as they might be and then your
heart and sometimes also your brain will
start to look for some sense in inside
these facts and will start to
extrapolate from the little amount of
data you have and start to create a
whole new image a whole new personality
out of it and of course this new image
this new person is far more interesting
and far more fascinating than reality
can ever be but that’s not for you to
worry about now you want it to be true
so it is true and you don’t know it any
better
you have been helped in any context and
so you made some on your own and so this
is having a crush on someone works by
recognizing the other person is more or
less you and second by knowing not too
much but enough details to be able to
make an educated guess about
anything else and with these two points
I’ve not only explained laughs in the
rules of attraction but also my very
deep very deep a section for other
people’s lost shopping lists because I
find other people’s lost shopping lists
since I’ve been living in Munich around
two and a half years now and I find them
everywhere I go it’s kind of a hobby I
find it in the park not only in the
supermarket where they kind of belong
but also in this subway in the elevator
in my office in the swimming pool
anywhere and when I find one I do not
pick it up but I slightly check whether
it’s not too dirty so I can touch it and
then I take a photo and post that photo
on Instagram and leave the list where I
found it and I found that each and every
list is a huge source for inspiration
and also gives me more details about its
former owner than he or she would ever
be willing to give to me in person the
first one I found in the subway in
spring 2015 and it’s kind of a reminder
of a very special evening we have
tomatoes with pine nuts pork bacon
potatoes lamb’s lettuce tomatoes again
carrots milk and asparagus this of
course is a shopping list could also be
a cooking receipt and a few days later I
found my favorite one my all-time
favorite it’s a yellow post-it and
unique main station we have a man’s
shirt and a man’s size with cheap
lipstick tickets who knows for what and
we have a lady’s dress than the Blazer
and now I can literally hear your brains
and your hearts creating the context
behind
I will leave you to it but to be honest
in the normal case the stories are not
that obvious
Dutch plane and are even a bit more
quiet like that one we have here pouring
soil a blouse sneaker socks and black
tomatoes asparagus and maybe spaghetti
and this is quite a nice impression of a
normal day of a normal life actually but
of course we have to be careful
especially I have to be careful because
as a journalist I can only take for
granted what I see there what stands
there this is what I know all the other
things I have to guess about and it’s
not my job to guess it’s my job to know
to write stories true and to find out
what I don’t know and obviously in these
cases this is not possible and so each
and every shopping list I find marks a
clear line for me and I’m trying to
balance on this line but I mustn’t cross
it and as you can see guessing it’s very
tempting in these cases especially in
this cheap lipstick thing and I can see
clearly what lies beyond that border of
mustn’t cross the land of imagination
and of fiction it doesn’t cost much to
imagine and to wonder how the faces and
how the people and the lives that stand
behind the lost shopping lists could
look like in some cases it’s even merely
literature poetry it’s almost a novel in
a nutshell just again this cheap
lipstick saying the best poetry you can
find or look at that one
it’s a great impression of an ordinary
Saturday starting with bread and milk
lime juice sour cream eggs ten maybe six
assume it’s going to be a cake
so if daycare shower gel then visiting
an electronic device store and concert
tickets again all that one I found that
in the holiday no spray and the were
Knesset shape and at our written
probably where woman and the rest is
your imagination or that one we have
lemon olive oil potatoes salads sausage
yogurt it’s a normal grocery list with a
few extra wishes or that one packing
list for summer camp for little boy
found it on the main station again
several clothes trousers pullover socks
and very funny pajamas and stuffed
animal a teddy bear what’s really sweet
others she documents of everyday life
here you have pizza ingredients I wish
I’d been there looks really nice now
that one is merely art you could put it
on the wall it’s that little but you
could put it on the wall and call it
Deutschland
potatoes breads different kinds of
sausages pattern X margarine and
sauerkraut it was really happy about
that one of course you can have an
impression of people’s characters as
well found that one yeah I’ll leave you
to it
speaks for itself and of course you have
also the opposite that one that could be
a short story of tobacco honey something
some sweets and it’s really nice and at
the bottom you have please turn around I
didn’t do that I didn’t see that and
because I leave them where I found it
where I find them it’s too late now
but the front page is nice as well this
is another favorite it’s pure poetry
flowers toothpicks lemon really nice
really strong imagery and of course the
first side I could look a bit boring
three words nothing more but it’s not
it’s not boring and not only because of
the words but also because of the blank
space that is surrounded and that you
fill now with your own imagination mmm I
find around 100 shopping lists average
and I found it very interesting because
every list allows us to have a glimpse
in another person’s life a very intimate
glimpse and what could be more
interesting than having a look into
other people like people’s life to watch
another person live that’s exactly the
same mechanism Facebook and Instagram
work on and the reason why I say it
successful
but of course social media works in the
different direction because on Facebook
Instagram you do not only want to look
but you only you also want to present
yourself you want to create a certain
image every posting every picture every
joke is merely a picture of yourself
it’s like dancing to music but going on
the stage first and shouting hey look at
me and finding a lost shopping list
it’s like watching somebody dance who
dances like nobody’s watching loss
shopping lists shows people not in the
way they want to be seen but in the way
people are so they’re authentic they are
honest if you will and you know in the
public sphere where almost everything is
directed and staged and designed lost
shopping lists could be one of the last
pieces that are not designed not curated
that are released honestly most cases
I’m there alone when I find the shopping
lists parent company and then really
absurd scenes happen because I do almost
anything to catch shopping lists if I
find one I stop in the middle of a
sentence I jump into the street on the
rail tracks I turn in the middle of the
escalator and then I’m just gone and
when my friends turn around because
they’re talking to me then maybe I’m
down on my knees I’m taking a photo and
then other people look at me
why the hell are you what are you doing
why do we find this trash thing is so
interesting and I have to admit this is
a good question and I didn’t have an
answer for that for a long time but it’s
easy as I said before lost shopping
lists allow a glimpse into another
person’s life and the exciting thing is
that what I can see is mostly not
exciting it’s mostly not extraordinary
in special and glamorous but it’s
ordinary normal it’s like looking into a
mirror and maybe seeing myself or
another person doesn’t matter because
it’s all the same these are the
ingredients of other people’s lives
these are the ingredients other people
need so badly that they don’t want to
forget them and this is for me as well
these are also the ingredients of my
life and so each and every lost shopping
list it’s kind of a little piece of
proof I’m a normal person I’m not alone
there are plenty of other persons who
are exactly like me they’re plenty of
other persons who have also their daily
struggles and they also fail in stocking
toothpaste and then one day one morning
they don’t have any then I have to buy
some and then they don’t trust I don’t
trust their brains and write down
toothpaste on a piece of paper and then
they even fail in keeping that piece of
paper
that’s very good to know and on some
days it’s very good to be reminded of
that
so as the shopping lists can no longer
remind their former owner of what he or
she didn’t want to forget it reminds me
of something bigger and for me something
more important and so if I can give you
one final piece of advice then don’t
lose your shopping list because you need
it more than I do I have plenty of
others and it’s precious and it’s so
precious because it could tell a story
about you that you wouldn’t want to tell
me if I asked you for it and if you lose
it anywhere don’t worry it’ll be in good
hands thank you
[Applause]
on someone I’m sure each of you knows
how that feels and so of course all of
you know what happens in that very
moment you feel attracted to another
person just because you feel you to have
so many things in common you may not
know what exactly but that’s not
important and you may also feel that the
other person has very interesting
fascinating backstory which of course
you mainly feel fascinating because you
don’t know it in detail
mmm so one reason for the attraction is
your assumption that the other person
yes more or less
exactly like you the fuse lives but
important differences and in order to
get a crush on someone it’s not
necessary that you know so much about
the other person in fact it’s even
easier if you don’t what you need are
some facts some details as rough and
random as they might be and then your
heart and sometimes also your brain will
start to look for some sense in inside
these facts and will start to
extrapolate from the little amount of
data you have and start to create a
whole new image a whole new personality
out of it and of course this new image
this new person is far more interesting
and far more fascinating than reality
can ever be but that’s not for you to
worry about now you want it to be true
so it is true and you don’t know it any
better
you have been helped in any context and
so you made some on your own and so this
is having a crush on someone works by
recognizing the other person is more or
less you and second by knowing not too
much but enough details to be able to
make an educated guess about
anything else and with these two points
I’ve not only explained laughs in the
rules of attraction but also my very
deep very deep a section for other
people’s lost shopping lists because I
find other people’s lost shopping lists
since I’ve been living in Munich around
two and a half years now and I find them
everywhere I go it’s kind of a hobby I
find it in the park not only in the
supermarket where they kind of belong
but also in this subway in the elevator
in my office in the swimming pool
anywhere and when I find one I do not
pick it up but I slightly check whether
it’s not too dirty so I can touch it and
then I take a photo and post that photo
on Instagram and leave the list where I
found it and I found that each and every
list is a huge source for inspiration
and also gives me more details about its
former owner than he or she would ever
be willing to give to me in person the
first one I found in the subway in
spring 2015 and it’s kind of a reminder
of a very special evening we have
tomatoes with pine nuts pork bacon
potatoes lamb’s lettuce tomatoes again
carrots milk and asparagus this of
course is a shopping list could also be
a cooking receipt and a few days later I
found my favorite one my all-time
favorite it’s a yellow post-it and
unique main station we have a man’s
shirt and a man’s size with cheap
lipstick tickets who knows for what and
we have a lady’s dress than the Blazer
and now I can literally hear your brains
and your hearts creating the context
behind
I will leave you to it but to be honest
in the normal case the stories are not
that obvious
Dutch plane and are even a bit more
quiet like that one we have here pouring
soil a blouse sneaker socks and black
tomatoes asparagus and maybe spaghetti
and this is quite a nice impression of a
normal day of a normal life actually but
of course we have to be careful
especially I have to be careful because
as a journalist I can only take for
granted what I see there what stands
there this is what I know all the other
things I have to guess about and it’s
not my job to guess it’s my job to know
to write stories true and to find out
what I don’t know and obviously in these
cases this is not possible and so each
and every shopping list I find marks a
clear line for me and I’m trying to
balance on this line but I mustn’t cross
it and as you can see guessing it’s very
tempting in these cases especially in
this cheap lipstick thing and I can see
clearly what lies beyond that border of
mustn’t cross the land of imagination
and of fiction it doesn’t cost much to
imagine and to wonder how the faces and
how the people and the lives that stand
behind the lost shopping lists could
look like in some cases it’s even merely
literature poetry it’s almost a novel in
a nutshell just again this cheap
lipstick saying the best poetry you can
find or look at that one
it’s a great impression of an ordinary
Saturday starting with bread and milk
lime juice sour cream eggs ten maybe six
assume it’s going to be a cake
so if daycare shower gel then visiting
an electronic device store and concert
tickets again all that one I found that
in the holiday no spray and the were
Knesset shape and at our written
probably where woman and the rest is
your imagination or that one we have
lemon olive oil potatoes salads sausage
yogurt it’s a normal grocery list with a
few extra wishes or that one packing
list for summer camp for little boy
found it on the main station again
several clothes trousers pullover socks
and very funny pajamas and stuffed
animal a teddy bear what’s really sweet
others she documents of everyday life
here you have pizza ingredients I wish
I’d been there looks really nice now
that one is merely art you could put it
on the wall it’s that little but you
could put it on the wall and call it
Deutschland
potatoes breads different kinds of
sausages pattern X margarine and
sauerkraut it was really happy about
that one of course you can have an
impression of people’s characters as
well found that one yeah I’ll leave you
to it
speaks for itself and of course you have
also the opposite that one that could be
a short story of tobacco honey something
some sweets and it’s really nice and at
the bottom you have please turn around I
didn’t do that I didn’t see that and
because I leave them where I found it
where I find them it’s too late now
but the front page is nice as well this
is another favorite it’s pure poetry
flowers toothpicks lemon really nice
really strong imagery and of course the
first side I could look a bit boring
three words nothing more but it’s not
it’s not boring and not only because of
the words but also because of the blank
space that is surrounded and that you
fill now with your own imagination mmm I
find around 100 shopping lists average
and I found it very interesting because
every list allows us to have a glimpse
in another person’s life a very intimate
glimpse and what could be more
interesting than having a look into
other people like people’s life to watch
another person live that’s exactly the
same mechanism Facebook and Instagram
work on and the reason why I say it
successful
but of course social media works in the
different direction because on Facebook
Instagram you do not only want to look
but you only you also want to present
yourself you want to create a certain
image every posting every picture every
joke is merely a picture of yourself
it’s like dancing to music but going on
the stage first and shouting hey look at
me and finding a lost shopping list
it’s like watching somebody dance who
dances like nobody’s watching loss
shopping lists shows people not in the
way they want to be seen but in the way
people are so they’re authentic they are
honest if you will and you know in the
public sphere where almost everything is
directed and staged and designed lost
shopping lists could be one of the last
pieces that are not designed not curated
that are released honestly most cases
I’m there alone when I find the shopping
lists parent company and then really
absurd scenes happen because I do almost
anything to catch shopping lists if I
find one I stop in the middle of a
sentence I jump into the street on the
rail tracks I turn in the middle of the
escalator and then I’m just gone and
when my friends turn around because
they’re talking to me then maybe I’m
down on my knees I’m taking a photo and
then other people look at me
why the hell are you what are you doing
why do we find this trash thing is so
interesting and I have to admit this is
a good question and I didn’t have an
answer for that for a long time but it’s
easy as I said before lost shopping
lists allow a glimpse into another
person’s life and the exciting thing is
that what I can see is mostly not
exciting it’s mostly not extraordinary
in special and glamorous but it’s
ordinary normal it’s like looking into a
mirror and maybe seeing myself or
another person doesn’t matter because
it’s all the same these are the
ingredients of other people’s lives
these are the ingredients other people
need so badly that they don’t want to
forget them and this is for me as well
these are also the ingredients of my
life and so each and every lost shopping
list it’s kind of a little piece of
proof I’m a normal person I’m not alone
there are plenty of other persons who
are exactly like me they’re plenty of
other persons who have also their daily
struggles and they also fail in stocking
toothpaste and then one day one morning
they don’t have any then I have to buy
some and then they don’t trust I don’t
trust their brains and write down
toothpaste on a piece of paper and then
they even fail in keeping that piece of
paper
that’s very good to know and on some
days it’s very good to be reminded of
that
so as the shopping lists can no longer
remind their former owner of what he or
she didn’t want to forget it reminds me
of something bigger and for me something
more important and so if I can give you
one final piece of advice then don’t
lose your shopping list because you need
it more than I do I have plenty of
others and it’s precious and it’s so
precious because it could tell a story
about you that you wouldn’t want to tell
me if I asked you for it and if you lose
it anywhere don’t worry it’ll be in good
hands thank you
[Applause]
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