HOW A CLEAN ROOM IS JORDAN'S SECRET FORMULA

A psychologist's explanation of what your mess means...

A look Into Your Room

Look at those clothes. And that thing over there is the floor. The drawers are filled with shirts you’re not even wearing. 

I’m looking in the mirror as I write this, but maybe you’re the same. Perhaps you have let things slip away, or maybe our target audience tends to be people who are super clean. 

If that is the case, there is still value and laughs to pull from this edition, but you’re ahead of most. 

Jordan Peterson is a psychologist, professor, and influential public intellectual, known for his academic work in psychology, bestselling books like "12 Rules for Life," and his outspoken views on cultural and political issues.

But today you’ll know him because he’s going to become your biggest enemy. 

Because Jordan wants you to clean your room.

Dirty Clothes

Why the clean room? Why must I clean it? Am I going to become a millionaire if I do it? Am I going to become the next David Goggins? 

Once again, I am back looking in the mirror. But the reason Jordan starts here is because a lot of people can relate to it. 

And as we’ll see later in the edition, the point of this can expand far beyond cleaning your room. 

Actually, let’s get into it now so that the clean freaks (this is the highest form of compliment) can stick with us. 

Snowball Effect

“Incremental improvement repeatedly is virtually unstoppable.” - Jordan Peterson

Put simply, if you make small improvements every single day, you’re going to get whatever the hell you want in life and more. 

It sounds simple enough, but most aren’t really doing this, and that’s why most people…well…live the life they live. 

Jordan gives an example of you going to a behavior therapist and runs you through this scenario. 

“Things aren’t the way I want them to be,” you say.

“How would you like them to be, and how are they not that,” Jordan replies.

You spill to Jordan that you’re lonely, and looking to clean your room but you just cannot do it.

Jordan says, “Well what are incremental movements that you can make towards that goal that would be helpful that you can do?”

“Why don’t we start with just opening the drawer? Let’s see if you can do that by next week and move further from there.”

Next Week

The following week has arrived. Now look, that was an easy step. Nothing even got done, it was just you opening the drawer. 

But that was needed if you had never even gotten that far before. Perhaps that drawer sat dormant for years.

However, if this simple task is not really resonating with you and you’re further ahead, you can adapt the challenge to whatever size it ought to be. 

For example, cleaning out a whole drawer. Or cleaning the entire closet. Or just rearranging one part of the closet. 

“The goal is to reduce the magnitude of the move forward until you hit the point where you actually will do it.”

Whatever your “room cleaning” is, it’s too daunting. But what if you reduced it to a smaller task? You can keep scaling back further and further until there becomes such little friction that movement is the easiest thing you can do. 

Becoming A Master

You could become the master of cleaning your room (whatever that means), even when you hate doing it.

You could become an ultra-marathon runner, even when you get a cramp at 0.1 miles and you walk half of it. 

You can become a big business owner even when you love sitting on that couch and watching Disney+. 

It makes no sense now, because that is a long journey, but everyone who has become the things above, were not always like that. 

It was a result of that small incremental action that we heard Jordan talk about earlier. But here’s where most people fail.

They either 1) don’t start or 2) don’t increase incrementally. 

The reason we’re making the task so damn easy is for that reason of not starting. Hard to be an ultra-marathon runner when you won’t even put the shoe on and step outside.

So if that is the first step, so be it. But it’s not done there. Lacing up is cool for your montage scene, but that is just one scene in what should be a long and epic montage. 

Now, I want you to pick something you want to do or are avoiding doing. Scale it back to a task you actually would do because of how sad it would be if you couldn’t do it. 

Then do it. Next day, just give it a little more. An extra minute. An extra mile. An extra lil area of room to clean. 

Now answer this question,

“If I did the thing I want to do or don’t want to do every day starting at the easiest level, then increasing it daily, where would I be in 5 years?”

That’s gonna be one hell of a clean room my friend.

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