>>2806
personally i never understood the whole... clean up thing (for self improvement), until i moved in with my cousin, she keeps the place extremely tidy. it physically made me desire to make up my bed, because seeing it jumbled up irrationally bothered me, which never ever happened in my life ever before. I guess when its clean enough, you'll irrationally get upset at mess, so i just had to do it. I've heard Jorden Peterson advocate it, and i heard a military guy advocate it this advice, so i'd wager a guess it must have some amount of statistics behind it, its certainly conventional advice.
i think it could be the result of 2 things: either the originator of the advice is a person who is very clean and therefor gets upset at dirtiness; and so he simply thought "well, these people in dirty situations must be unhappy with their dirtiness, so fixing it is a good start to reclaim some happiness, as that is what I would do." (which would be stupid, because these dirty people likely straight up don't care at all, they don't get that irrational feeling for things to be cleaner or unhappiness from it being untidy, making this advice merely a misreading by a guy in different circumstances, and a waste of effort for those that don't naturally care so much for tidiness - a pretty significant population.)
or! that cleaning up your place to a point that you become extremely clean, that it makes you upset to see it dirty is somehow a happier circumstance than the previous state, and everyone, even not naturally tidy people can become like that by trying to be clean. Maybe it gives a small win to come back to (which is what the military guy said), that you can religiously maintain, which i think makes sense how it could make you happy and be worth while. Also maybe some subtle other implications, cleaned up room = a cleaned up act, gives you some dignity despite desperate circumstances. This also means they still failed in explaining it properly, because they should have emphasized you must make it clean enough to that you find yourself getting irrationally upset about it getting messy, or it doesn't work.
I tried it personally, and it seemed like a waste of time, i don't care to make my bed, waste of effort. But if you care about untidiness, you should force yourself to keep your place tidy, it'll make you happier.