Name: Does Being Messy Make You More Creative?
Uploaded: 2016-06-10T15:19:15.000Z
Duration: 2 min 59 s
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Modal verbs - A2

As somebody who cannot find his keys underneath his dirty

that messy people are super-creative geniuses.

of Albert Einstein, Roald Dahl, or Peter Parker--

who is not real, but feels real in my heart.

I like this theory because I'm a little disorganized myself.

And what traits come along with an organized life?

wanted to find out just that, and so they ran three studies

to see how the tidiness of a room affects human behavior.

In the first, people were sent into either a tidy room

or a messy room and asked to think about all

the creative ways to sell ping-pong balls they could.

People in each room gave the same amount of answers,

but the two independent judges found the answers

And a previous study by Northwestern University

drew more creative pictures and could solve brain-teasers

In the second Missouri study, the people in each room

and they were offered a smoothie with a free boost.

likely to choose a boost that was labeled "classic,"

were more likely to pick one labeled "new."

So the messy room led people to be drawn more towards novelty,

while the tiny room was drawn more towards convention.

to fill out a questionnaire, and then they

were offered either a chocolate bar or an apple.

The people in the messy room almost always

I'm willing to admit to a certain level of impulsiveness.

if they'd like to donate to a charitable organization,

and the people in the clean room donated a lot more money

OK, so maybe tidy people make healthier, more ethical people,

but the messy people are still the creative risk-takers,

to show that cleaner environments promote safe

Those things are not good or bad by definition.

It just depends on what situation you're in.

You know, speaking as somebody from the messy camp though,

it's important to remember that in a public space,

like school or work, you have to deal with other people's

they judge people by how clean they keep their work spaces.

And nearly half of them said that a messy desk

is a clear sign that the person who sits at it

but secretly do all my work in the storage closet.

Do you work better in a clean or a messy environment?

I cannot think unless I'm surrounded by clutter.

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