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Your Work Space: Messy or Neat?
February 20, 2012
When you're stuck in a spiral, to change all aspects of the spin you need only to change one thing.
-Christina Baldwin
Sam Gosling of the University of Texas has a different perspective: "Clean, tidy work spaces are signs of people who are organized, methodical, and task-focused. Less neat people tend to respond more to cues, such as stacks of papers, folders, post-it notes, and laid-open books to remind them of what they've done and what they need to do."
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United States
02/20/2012 06:10 am
Oh wow, I feel much better about myself! :-)
CSBC
Denver, United States
02/20/2012 05:21 am
I tend to go with the messy view. I think the more we find out about the brain, its pretty messy - using a variety of visual cues, sound cues, webbed contacts, and personal/emotional contexts. But I also think that just as each of us has a learning style, each has a thinking and problem-solving style that works best for them. The problem with order is that the world is neither orderly nor logical!