Comments on: Free Your Mind – Reducing Clutter http://vladdolezal.com/blog/2008/free-your-mind-reducing-clutter/ feel deeply alive, every single day Tue, 07 Feb 2012 12:01:50 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: peggu http://vladdolezal.com/blog/2008/free-your-mind-reducing-clutter/comment-page-1/#comment-297 peggu Fri, 06 Jun 2008 16:10:00 +0000 http://vladdolezal.com/blog/?p=13#comment-297 Throw away books ? You must be kidding! Books? How cold you throw away books? Eveyone who knows me know this... I will would go through many hardships to repay to you money, favors, and any item I have ever borrowed. EXCEPT BOOKS! Never lend me a book. I will never give it back. If you don't believe me come and look at my bookcase. It is Full. IT IS NOT CLUTTERED! It is just full! I would not have bothered to write this but I noticed that in your first description of clutter you included books. Whenyou were giving instructions of how to begin, you again included books. What is your problem ,Jack? Do me a favor. Never own another book. If you have a need to read, go to a library. And take those old books with you and donate them! Throw away books ? You must be kidding! Books? How cold you throw away books? Eveyone who knows me know this… I will would go through many hardships to repay to you money, favors, and any item I have ever borrowed. EXCEPT BOOKS! Never lend me a book. I will never give it back. If you don’t believe me come and look at my bookcase. It is Full. IT IS NOT CLUTTERED! It is just full! I would not have bothered to write this but I noticed that in your first description of clutter you included books. Whenyou were giving instructions of how to begin, you again included books. What is your problem ,Jack? Do me a favor. Never own another book. If you have a need to read, go to a library. And take those old books with you and donate them!

]]> By: Anonymous http://vladdolezal.com/blog/2008/free-your-mind-reducing-clutter/comment-page-1/#comment-296 Anonymous Tue, 18 Mar 2008 09:38:00 +0000 http://vladdolezal.com/blog/?p=13#comment-296 Amazing article. Some of the facts I knew intuitively, but you put it in a very elegant and straight way. I always have a very strong attachment to the past, e.g. a ticket of a concert that I attended years ago. Only recently I realized that my concentration on the past destroys my future. And yes the hardest part is to convince myself that I don't, and won't, need the stuff that should be decluttered.<br/>Cheers,<br/>fadyek Amazing article. Some of the facts I knew intuitively, but you put it in a very elegant and straight way. I always have a very strong attachment to the past, e.g. a ticket of a concert that I attended years ago. Only recently I realized that my concentration on the past destroys my future. And yes the hardest part is to convince myself that I don’t, and won’t, need the stuff that should be decluttered.
Cheers,
fadyek

]]> By: Anonymous http://vladdolezal.com/blog/2008/free-your-mind-reducing-clutter/comment-page-1/#comment-295 Anonymous Sat, 08 Mar 2008 21:36:00 +0000 http://vladdolezal.com/blog/?p=13#comment-295 The only thing necessary is to keep at least an A3-sized workspace on your table, at worst covered by some papers.<br/>The point of this is, i think that that starting a task follow a sort of 'square law' - the energy required to do something rises with square of the number of intermediate things you need to do - a good example from my life - when i needed to do some work of physics, usually it required finding paper, finding book , and finding a palce where to write on. Usually i ended with winishing the work on the night before.<br/>When i made some order , so that the first two falled off, i managed to do it on Saturday. <br/>Also ,i found out that if on holiday i have no appropriate table and a source of paper, it is extremely unlikely that i am going to do something useful - again due to the fact that i cannot start working when i think of it.<br/><br/>Otherwise, howewer clutter is not bad at all - you never know when some thing is going to be useful to you , so sometimes digging through the piles in the drawers can find amazingly useful stuff for the particular task.<br/><br/>Mental clutter is something different - i know from experience the longer you keep in mind that you have to do something, the more repulsive it becomes - This works at absurdum - it applies not only to work and interesting work, but surprisingly playing computer games, or even watching a film!<br/><br/>The idea with writing thoughts down i will try, as soon as i find a better place where to keep my notepad - in the kidney belt it was impractical.<br/><br/>drone91 The only thing necessary is to keep at least an A3-sized workspace on your table, at worst covered by some papers.
The point of this is, i think that that starting a task follow a sort of ‘square law’ – the energy required to do something rises with square of the number of intermediate things you need to do – a good example from my life – when i needed to do some work of physics, usually it required finding paper, finding book , and finding a palce where to write on. Usually i ended with winishing the work on the night before.
When i made some order , so that the first two falled off, i managed to do it on Saturday.
Also ,i found out that if on holiday i have no appropriate table and a source of paper, it is extremely unlikely that i am going to do something useful – again due to the fact that i cannot start working when i think of it.

Otherwise, howewer clutter is not bad at all – you never know when some thing is going to be useful to you , so sometimes digging through the piles in the drawers can find amazingly useful stuff for the particular task.

Mental clutter is something different – i know from experience the longer you keep in mind that you have to do something, the more repulsive it becomes – This works at absurdum – it applies not only to work and interesting work, but surprisingly playing computer games, or even watching a film!

The idea with writing thoughts down i will try, as soon as i find a better place where to keep my notepad – in the kidney belt it was impractical.

drone91

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