As a child I was frequently told, that everything must have a place, and that everything must be in it’s place. I didn’t always comply with this, and was given painful reminders, as a result. I think, most of us will agree, that there must be order in our daily lives, otherwise many things may become lost, and targets not achieved.
Is this always the case? How often have you visited someone else’s home and thought, how untidy everything looks? Yet, that someone may be quite successful in a different way. Then, there are the super-tidy people. They spend their time looking at their watch or clock, worrying about a timetable for everything they do, or want to do. Should something unexpected happen to their plan, they panic and are completely lost.
The above examples could suggest that a degree of flexibility is the best way forward. Many of the world’s top geniuses have not been very orderly in their everyday lives. Look, for example, at the Silicon Valley. Most of the successful people working there, go to work in T-shirts, have long, untidy hair, etc. They wouldn’t normally, impress us well-dressed folk.
Again, compare nations. Those with strict laws, ordering their populations what they can do, and what they mustn’t do, are far less innovative, than those operating freer, more democratic societies. Does this mean, that we should say ‘leave the dirty dishes on the table, we can clean up sometime later’. Or, ‘I can throw my dirty socks into a corner, somebody will wash them, sometime?’ ‘I could become a genius!’ Over to you, dearest reader!
Glossary:
comply - to do something, as required, or ordered
achieved - reached
(un)tidy - disorderly / orderly
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