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                    the desk. In the picture taken on Day         some  sheets  of  paper  after  studying
                    4, I could find three notebooks and a         physics   in    the    morning,    the
                    textbook pile up on the right side of         "precautionary     statement"     went
                    the  desk.  By  the  time  I  went  to bed    unseen.  Once  some  notebooks  are
                    that  night,  I  took  out  another  book     put on the desk again on the next day,
                    on the pile. The pile of books did not        the  pile  of  books  immediately  got
                    disappear succeeding days, and I stop         higher  and  higher,  which  forced  me
                    taking  photos  on  Day7  to  analyze         to reconsider the strategy to keep the
                    what action made the desk messy and           desk organized.
                    what strategies could be taken.               Confirming  that  the  warning  on  the
                    By  reflecting  on  what  happened            paper does  not  play any  role,  I  tried
                    during  this  period,  I  found  that  the    removing  the  map  and  the  calendar
                    desk rapidly became messy after I left        for the first time in my life (Day 12).
                    something on the desk, especially on          The desk was made of wood, so when
                    which I can put something else. The           I removed them, what I see was only
                    higher  a  pile  of  textbooks  got,  the     the brown, smooth cedar board. The
                    more difficult and troublesome it got         result was striking. There was not one
                    to  put  them  away.  Moreover,  only         notebook  on  Day  17,  after  five  days
                    one  notebook  encourages  me  to  put        from Day 12. More surprisingly, there
                    another one on it. This phenomenon            is no pile of books today!
                    is extremely similar to the psychology        I  believe  the  first  impression  I  got
                    of  those  who  litter.  ENCAMS,  an          when  I  removed  my  beloved  map  is
                    environmental  protection  group  in          the  key  to  this  result.  Just  by
                    England,  classifies  it  into  five          removing the map, I felt as the desk
                    different  states;  Beautiful  Behaved,       became twice as big as it had used to
                    Justifier,  Life's  too  short  and  am  I    be.  This  clearly  shows  that  the  map
                    bothered?,  Guilty,  and  Blamer.  I          itself was the "something" that led to
                    believe  "justifier"  is  exactly  what  is   the  messy  desk.  In  other  words,  the
                    happening to me. I feel it is right to        colorful map was the very thing that
                    put something on the desk if there is         encouraged me to put a notebook on
                    already a notebook. Figuring out that         the desk.
                    I should prevent myself from putting          To sum up, the best way to keep my
                    something  on  the  desk  in  the  first      desk  organized  is  not  to  put
                    place,  I  wrote  down  in  the  capital      ANYTHING on the desk.
                    letter  saying,  "DO  NOT  PUT
                    NOTEBOOK" and put the paper on                *****************************
                    the desk. I resumed to take a photo of
                    my desk at 3 p.m. (Day 8)
                    This strategy did not work for me at
                    all. On Day 9, after I happened to put










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