I suspect it has something to do with the fact that some people can remember where zillions of random objects have been placed in a room. I can do that to some degree, and it reduces the incentive to put things in defined places. If you can't remember random locations, you have to place things based on some sort of category the object has, so when you go to look for the object, you know which place it must be in.
It doesn't really reduce the incentive so much as it's the habit. That's the way you do things.
Trying to set up places for things to belong is really REALLY hard. And then trying to bake in a habit for using those places is even harder. I.e., it requires creating a whole different way of doing things and then learning the details of that way while unlearning old habits.
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Date: 2013-05-02 01:17 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2013-05-04 01:09 am (UTC)Trying to set up places for things to belong is really REALLY hard. And then trying to bake in a habit for using those places is even harder. I.e., it requires creating a whole different way of doing things and then learning the details of that way while unlearning old habits.