Yesterday, I started to organize the messiest room of my parents’ house. Although it also requires physical strength, it is fun because I love bringing order to chaos.
That made me realize that organizing a scattered room is a logical activity. Let’s talk about it.
How to be more logical
Sometimes, we want to be more logical. It eliminates our emotions and provides us with efficiency. In other words, rationality improves our lives steadily.
However, we sometimes don’t know how to train our logical sense.
One efficient logical exercise is organizing your room. Today, I will explain why and introduce an advanced organizational philosophy that improves your life.
Our lives and scattered rooms
Organizing your room and your belongings is a logical activity. They cultivate your logical sense.
If you already have a simple and tidy room, try adding a philosophy that prevents it from being too simple. In other words, leave unnecessary things in chaos. That would be an enhanced organizing method.
Organizing things is a logical activity.
There is no answer to organizing. However, it is pointless if we make the room difficult to use. That means it requires efficiency instead of an answer. We can be satisfied even if we don’t know the answer. We also don’t need to pursue a perfect answer and an ideal state.
Efficiency is about arranging our possessions to suit our ways of living. Although we want to place the necessities close and the unnecessary items far away, there could be various categories to sort. Our preferences always change, but we can set a moderate style. Setting order from chaos is a logical activity.
My experience
I realized it through organizing the scattered room in my current home. My retired parents earn some additional income from sewing, and there are many disorganized and messy fabrics. Then, my parents became motivated to clean up the chaotic room due to my influence.
However, when I asked them to sort the fabrics into several categories, they became stressed and could not do it at all.
That surprised me. This is because I felt classifying things was easy. I have never struggled with creating categories.
Perhaps you feel the same as I do. Suppose you are asked, “Classify the clothes you have into 5 to 6 categories.” You would do it with ease if you were logical.
That experience told me that organizing things requires logical sense. We make orders, classify, and distinguish what is fundamental and what is superficial. That realizes efficiency.
On the other hand, non-logical people are poor at organizing. That causes a messy room.
An enhanced organizing philosophy
For logical people, simplifying our lives too much would be more problematic. It makes us pursue only one aspect of values. That exhausts us.
If you already have enough logical sense and a tidy room, it would be effective to leave unnecessary things in chaos. We clean up the nearby places but leave the distant ones in chaos.
We don’t have to clean up places that are far from us. It includes a far future. Some people prefer a messy state. We don’t know what the future holds if we are rational. It is irrational to try to make others’ preferences and our future preferences our current preferences. Chaos means different values. Leave chaos as it is.
That awareness makes our lives easier. It can be said as an organizing philosophy. We can allow unnecessary things to remain chaotic. That gives us moderation, removes stress, and shapes our boundaries and priorities.
Conclusion
That is why organizing your room allows you to train your logical sense.
If you already have a tidy room, it would be effective to leave unnecessary things in chaos.
That might help you show your logical ability.
Thank you for reading this article. I hope to see you in the next one.
