Isaac- Assignment 20- The Art of Organized Chaos

In order to truly master the art of organized chaos, there are a few things you'll need:

• A good memory
• The ability to not compulsively clean things
• A lot of things you might need later. You're not sure, but they might come in handy at some point, so you keep them around.

There are, as the name implies, two parts to this craft: organization and chaos. Let's start with chaos.

Creating your chaos is a slow process, but what you'll need to do is designate an area to put your maybe-important things. Then you put them there. As time passes you will compile more and more things that you're keeping. The reason this is called chaos is because from an outside point of view the fact that you have a great many papers and items staked atop of or next to one another may be seen as chaotic.

The truly difficult part of mastering organized chaos, however, is the so-called "organization." Without a good memory, this section of your task is probably impossible. The idea is that you remember both what and where each maybe-important item you've kept is so that you can find said item as needed. Without being able to master this crucial element, you won't have mastered organized chaos. You'll just have a bunch of stuff everywhere and you probably won't even know what most of it is.