Throughout our lives, becoming successful has been preached numerous times. But with success, means being organized. At least that’s what we’ve been told.
No rebuttal can say otherwise when it’s shown in various forms that lazy uneducated people have a messy room, home, or lifestyle. Versus an educated person who somehow has their life together, and, whose humble abode is perceived to be as clean as Buckingham Palace.
But let’s ponder on this, what good can come from living in a pig sty? More than you would assume. Recent studies conducted by psychologist Kathleen Vohs and fellow researchers from the University of Minnesota concluded positive feedback on being pro-messy.
In one experiment, Vohs split a group of 48 participants, half in a clean room and, half in a messy room. Each participant was asked to come up with new utilizations for ping pong balls.
At the end, participants from each room came up with the same amount of ideas, but after a review from unbiased judges, it was concluded that those in the messy room had more fascinating and imaginative ideas.
“Disorderly environments seem to inspire breaking free of tradition, which can produce fresh insights,”
“Orderly environments, in contrast, encourage convention and playing it safe.”
After gaining scientific evidence, what more is there to know?
The following question is: “What establishes one to have the magical mind of a “creative thinker”, and how can putting off chores help with that?”
Creative thinking, put simply, is thinking out side of the conventional box. Going beyond what standards say, and carving your own path to success one mess at a time of course.
If my knowledge of choosing to “clean later” is far from practical, consider Albert Einstein,
“If a cluttered desk is a sign of a cluttered mind, then what are we to think of an empty desk?”
There’s no doubt Einsteins desk held more clutter than what is in your spam folder. But yet, he is still one of the most influential human beings to have ever existed.
Growing up, we’ve been taught to demean ourselves and others for not being “Mr. Clean”. Disorganized people are seen as lost, absent minded and (or) failures. But that’s simply only judging a book by its cover.
Those who choose “the messy lifestyle” (let’s be honest it chose you) are known to be naturally more spontaneous. They go with the flow of things instead of going against the current and tend to worry about a situation as a whole instead of every detail. Messy people are adventure seekers and are normally easy-going. They are more worried about filling time with memories of interest instead of memories of cleaning.
As a person whose lifestyle resembles a ball pit of craziness, I’ve accepted that if having a messy room, car, or desk is considered wrong and classifies me as a crazy, lost soul then I don’t want to be right.
