Keeping Tidy
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With an account, you can revise, criticize, and comment on ideas.I struggle keeping my private spaces as tidy as I would like.
I notice that I tend to work harder at being tidy when I am well fed, or have consumed dopaminergic substances like nicotine.
This leads me to believe that my untidiness may have to do with physiological lethargy, and that increasing availability of biological energy may contribute to a solution to it.
It may be the case that food and dopaminergic substances decrease my threshold for what problems I feel are interesting enough to tackle at a given moment, including tidying up.
A former coworker told me he sometimes struggled with self-doubt when he was in college. Then he noticed that the self-doubt would appear when he hadn’t eaten in a while. It consistently disappeared after meals.