Some thoughts on the book

Reading the second chapter of Everything is Miscellaneous reads “How we organize our world reflects not only the world but also our interests, our passions, our needs, our dreams”. I never really thought of how our personhood influences the way we organize our lives and our environment but I can see how this can be true. For example upon taking a math class a few semesters ago I made a sheet with all the formulas and things I had to know and memorize in order to do well on the tests. It was great having it all on one piece of paper because I didn’t have to search hard and long to find the answer if I had a question. I did well in the class and was glad I made that sheet of paper to help me organize my thoughts to remember what I had to know. The next semester I took a different math class but it related somewhat to the previous math class. I was tempted to keep the paper to help me just in case but I ended up throwing it away. I somewhat regretted throwing it away what I need handy answers to questions but oh well, I just had to take longer finding the answer to the questions I had. This book helped me realize why I threw away the paper I worked so hard to develop. Because my interests and needs changed. I didn’t totally need that paper because I hoped to find the answers to what I was looking for on google or something. And my interests changed because the math class I was taking didn’t directly reflect what was on the paper. So my interests and needs did change the way I organized that paper at that time.

            
               I also found this point interesting from the book, “Now we know that not everything has 

its place. Everything has its places – the joints at which we choose to bend nature.” I find this 

true because I am frequently in the dilemma of how to organize so many things. I think I have a 

hard time because there is more than one right place for my items or digital information. I hope 

to be a better organizer from being more away of the miscellaneousness of the digital 

information I have.