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4 Things Jordan Peterson Taught Me About What It Means To Clean My Room…

Alexander Emmanual Sandalis
4 min readFeb 19, 2018

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By taking Dr. Jordan Peterson’s personality assessment I discovered I was very high in conscientiousness, industriousness and orderliness. Finally, now I have tangible statistics to prove why I like to be so organised and tidy.

When I heard Peterson bring up the topic of cleaning one’s room, I was intrigued to say the least. Before hearing Peterson discuss this topic, cleaning my room and keeping a tidy environment has meant more to me than the superficial. Keeping an extrinsically organised environment transfers to a intrinsically tidy mind. How am I suppose to calm the chaos of my mind if there’s chaos in my environment? To me, cleaning my room has always been a proxy to reducing potential anxiety and stress. The little thing’s create the big thing’s and how you do anything is how you do everything. So what did he teach me than?

1. It’s not easy to clean up your room.

Many would think such a simple concept would be easy and simple to execute. Well, unless your someone whose high in orderliness and conscientiousness like myself, than you’re going to find it quite challenging to summon the effort for a task like cleaning your room. Many either don’t…

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Alexander Emmanual Sandalis
Alexander Emmanual Sandalis

Written by Alexander Emmanual Sandalis

Self-reflective writings & book summaries on philosophy, psychology and human behaviour. Video’s + podcast → youtube.com/emmanualalexander

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