➢In the past year (2016–2017), psychologist Dr. Jordan Peterson’s saying “clean your room” has become famous on the twittersphere and a few other social sites.

I’m not going to go through the entire background, but below is a video of Peterson briefly explaining the concept.

Here’s another way of thinking about it:

When you “clean your room,” you’re not just organizing your house, you’re also organizing your psyche. Thus, you organize your house to properly fit your psyche, and design your rooms to fit major functions.

A room for working.

A room for playing.

A room for sleeping, etc.

You can even have a room for doing two separate things, as long as they are compartmentalized within the room. ‘The two shall not touch.’ Historically this would be called a purity code.

This code represents mental boundaries. Cross those boundaries, and you pay a price. If you’re unsure of how that can manifest, check with every sleepy millennial who spends three hours a day texting from their bed until 2am but has ‘no idea why I can’t fall asleep at night.’

Your brain is an association machine. Want to fall asleep easily in bed? Make it so that the only thing you do in bed is sleep (and have sex, if you do that too).

You organize your household, and imbue purpose to every room. Not only does it clear your mind and fill it with purpose based on the room you’re in, but it helps you focus as well.

Two men. One separates his rooms: Work, play, sleep; each has their own time and place. The other, does all three wherever he wants, whenever he wants. Who is able to stay focused? The one man KNOWS when he’s distracted, because he’s in the wrong room. The other man can lie to himself.

When Jordan Peterson says “clean your room” what he really means is “organize your psyche — and you start by organizing the physical reality by which your psyche orients itself.”

Stop getting in your own way.

Clean your damn room; don’t expect it to be easy. It’ll be hard.

Start anyways.

End.