The battle to exert influence, even minimal, on the disorder of life is one of the basic human instincts.
Marie Kondo pointed this out in The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up. Many are overcome with an urge to tidy whenever faced with a major task.
Initially, I dismissed this idea. But just a couple of months afterward, I caught myself doing this exact thing before I started preparing for a job interview.
Reader, if you need to clean your apartment, I recommend (a) assigning yourself a daunting mental task to accomplish and (b) giving yourself all day to do it.
