The Organized mind
What’s in it for me? Learn to organize your life! Picture the brain as a house. Not a nice clean new house, but a creaky old house that’s been renovated time and time again. Like a big house, your brain is full of information: memories, plans, ideas, etc. But it’s not like that information is neatly filed away. To help you survive, the human brain developed complex systems and processes to prioritize, store, and retrieve all the information you come across. Sometimes these systems get tripped up. When that happens, the house becomes uninhabitable, wouldn’t even pass a safety inspection. But obviously, you can’t move out of your brain. Instead, you lose your keys. You forget what you were going to say, right in the middle of a sentence. And you’re less productive, because you can’t keep your priorities straight. Your hopes and dreams, everything you have planned, are impossible with a disorganized mind. But why is that? The answer is in that old creaky house. You have...
