![]() Well, according to Eric Barker for Time Magazine, these scatterbrained tendencies of yours may actually determine how smart you are.Ĭiting Steven Johnson’s book “Where Good Ideas Come From: The Natural History Of Innovation,” Barker presents a theory that says messiness is an indicator of intelligence. You’re not oblivious to the fact that your mind is everywhere, but it just sort of works for you. ![]() ![]() You may misplace things from time to time, but it’s never detrimental to your overall life. Sure, your room might be messy, and you might be all over the place - mentally and physically - but you seem to know where everything is, as difficult as that may seem to an outsider. Despite your less-than-tidy, less-than-focused ways, you’ve always been able to function perfectly fine. Sloppiness leads to error, they say, insisting instead that cleanliness is a requirement for success.īut this has never really bothered you. You clean your room, but it usually only manages to stay that way for a day - maybe two - at the most.Īnd all your life, you’ve been urged to work on this area of your life. You have a hard time keeping track of certain belongings, specifically tubes of chapstick and credit cards. Your desk is flooded with loose pieces of paper. And your seemingly messy life is a result of your completely scatterbrained state of being. Although you might not be ready to call yourself a full-on mess - at least not yet - you’ve always been a bit, well, disorganized.
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