“Clean your work space or you’re grounded!” These are the words I’ve heard so many times during my childhood. I still remember the 8th-grader Malisa’s desk like the back of my hand. She would open a lot of textbooks scatterly with highlights and memos scribbled upon them, Post it notes stuck everywhere and pens sloppily placed inside its case with caps unclosed. For me, it looks completely fine. I could even call it my “utopia”. However my mother always says that people are going to judge my reliability: that my mind is just as clustered as my files on my table. Despite my understanding of her logic, I still firmly deny it. I believe that disorganization is not a dreadful negativity that people should be terrified of because it encourages
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What do I mean by flow? Let’s imagine a scenario. You were driving a car to Hua-Hin but while you were driving your friend kept on calling you and demanded multiple stops so you to pick something up for him on the way. A trip that was supposed to be only 2 hours extended to 4 hours. Now, if we compared this case to how human works, you driving a car is you working on something, and you making stops to pick stuff up for your friend is you being distracted from your actual task to tidy up your desk. For some people, mess is something that just happen. “Instead of worrying about minute details messy people tend to focus on the big picture. They would rather focus all of their attention on the important task at hand than worry about other things” said Caithlin Pena. Some people would become so engrossed on what they’re doing that they could not careless about the neatness around them. All that is on their mind is to finish their work quickly and …show more content…
Some people can reap so benefits like uniqueness, innovation, and handiness, which is caused by working among piles of objects. So next time if you see an untidy desk, please do not label the owner of the table as a “filth” or a “savage”. A surface of the desk does not reflect a person entirely like Einstein said “If a clustered desk is a sign of a clustered mind, of what, then, is an empty desk a sign of?” In addition, I am not saying that everyone on Earth should be messy since it can sometime lead to health problems both mentally and physically. In the other words, Organization and chaos must be kept at balance in order to ensure
What do I mean by flow? Let’s imagine a scenario. You were driving a car to Hua-Hin but while you were driving your friend kept on calling you and demanded multiple stops so you to pick something up for him on the way. A trip that was supposed to be only 2 hours extended to 4 hours. Now, if we compared this case to how human works, you driving a car is you working on something, and you making stops to pick stuff up for your friend is you being distracted from your actual task to tidy up your desk. For some people, mess is something that just happen. “Instead of worrying about minute details messy people tend to focus on the big picture. They would rather focus all of their attention on the important task at hand than worry about other things” said Caithlin Pena. Some people would become so engrossed on what they’re doing that they could not careless about the neatness around them. All that is on their mind is to finish their work quickly and …show more content…
Some people can reap so benefits like uniqueness, innovation, and handiness, which is caused by working among piles of objects. So next time if you see an untidy desk, please do not label the owner of the table as a “filth” or a “savage”. A surface of the desk does not reflect a person entirely like Einstein said “If a clustered desk is a sign of a clustered mind, of what, then, is an empty desk a sign of?” In addition, I am not saying that everyone on Earth should be messy since it can sometime lead to health problems both mentally and physically. In the other words, Organization and chaos must be kept at balance in order to ensure