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Being Messy Is A Sign of Intelligence — And You Should Try It.

Jacob Ruhl
2 min readSep 12, 2020

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Apparently there is a study proving that people who are messy are said to be intelligent because you are more creative with your mess can be turned into creating something out of it. Very interesting in my opinion, and I’m sure many other people are interested in that data too. But why is this? When we create a mess I believe it really activates our mind to figure out how to fix this and instead of activating into clean mode the brain says, let’s make this a little more fun and create something a little different. So your brain activates a wave of curiosity, “Let’s create something a little bit NEW.”

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This happens to me sometimes, I get super messy, I clean a little bit then a few days later I dive in and literally sometimes flip my room and make it amazing with little space. It’s because my brain wants something new and more interesting. Something to feed it happiness and a sense of cleanliness again then a few weeks later again I clean and flip over my bookshelf making it be useful to add more things including my TV and gaming console, tools, remotes, batteries and other things that wouldn’t be as easy to reach.

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Jacob Ruhl
Jacob Ruhl

Written by Jacob Ruhl

As a 23-year-old entrepreneur, I thrive on creativity and love exploring and sharing innovative ideas and unique interests with those around me.

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