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 Inside a Piler's Mind
We now know that the piler brain typically has a fantastic creating element (think: Einstein). For years we marginalized pilers because they looked like slackers. In reality, many geniuses are pilers: Picasso, Beethoven, da Vinci, etc. Maybe Jobs or Streep are pilers. Pilers bring us fun, innovation, and beauty. Educated guess here, but I imagine that most architects, writers, artists, inventors, engineers, designers, event planners, and entrepreneurs have the piler gene. (I don't think it's been identified yet, but I'm sure there is one.)
My unscientific theories are:
- Pilers use multi-tasking and random order processing to innovate in their mind. You've seen someone you know use this method with everyday tasks: cooking breakfast, feeding the dog, reading the paper, getting ready for work, and answering email all within the same space of time and in no particular order.
- Pilers use a fast-paced conscious to sub-conscious switching in order to pack in the data points on the creations they are brewing. The switching gives each idea space to breath.
- Pilers thinking in a circular fashion because they see connections everywhere, and linear thinking limits their creativity somehow.
Most of us are a combo. I seem to have piler days and filer days, but feel balanced when I have a piler hour then a filer hour. I'm not an artist per se, but if I didn't pile sometimes and look random in my task management, I'm fairly certain that I wouldn't create things.
The folks at Pendaflex are getting it. They've created a product line called PileSmart to help the piler stay organized. I use the Project Sorter to house many of my travelling and beefy projects or task sets. The papers destined for a project sorter land near the sorter, not filed neatly it in. I allow this, and probably sub-consciously encourage it. When I sit down to work on that project, I file neatly for a few minutes. This really helps balance the mix of creativity and rigidity.
Desktop stationery holders work wonders too. I used one for a piler that had several ongoing digital photo projects. The projects remain visible and are contained which is inspiring for a piler. Oftentimes, pilers do not like their work to be put away.
Sometimes, not always, these people and their minds need help systemizing, simplifying, ordering, encouraging new behavior, and producing something out of their creative thoughts. Their solutions need to be flexible, loose, and easy to change. Perfect Order works tirelessly to customize and create solutions solutions that work with creative and piler minds.
I like to think of our clients as the next Bill Gates or Georgia O'Keefe.
posted on: 11/12/2007 11:30:00 AM by Rochelle DeLong
category: Finances
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About Rochelle:
Rochelle DeLong is the founder of Perfect Order, a company that organizes businesses and homes. She and the Perfect Order team empower and support people in their pursuit to create and keep order in their lives.
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My Organizing Toolkit
- It's Hard to Make a Difference When You Can't Find Your Keys
- The eMyth Revisited
- See Jane Work
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