I was born to be a spontaneous person. I have to admit that by now. I can plan; but I don't like to do it a lot of times. My happiest zone is to act completely spontaneously, and enjoy the unexpected life, places, and people, full of surprise. I think that is in my personality-born that way.
Even when I compose music I do not compose by writing notes on a score. I most of the time would prefer to improvise. As a result, I am not able to reproduce most of my compositions-luckily most of them are recorded computer music. So you can hear my mind at the time but I can't perform for you.
But why suddenly I am an advocate of organization and planning?
Well it's not I don't like them. Actually the reason I want them more in my life is because I felt I like them better and better now. First of all, being an adult means more responsibility and planning and organization is necessary for that. Second, I'm not an artist but a scholar. Third, I am not by myself so my other half would not tolerate my total spontaneous actions.
But recently I realized a more important reason--being in order is one of the biggest challenges in life, yet human beings need that for evolutionary reasons--humans developed for hundreds of thousands of years, becoming more and more intelligent, systematic, organizational, sophisticated, etc., only able to reach where we are today. Without these attributes, human beings could not, as of today, live a more than ever exciting life with numerous possibilities shining in the light of the future. Everyone knows it is easier to be chaotic yet being organized is the challenge. Science and technology are certainly the result of these attributes, and they are the driving force of our history. If we evolve in a different direction and listen only to our biological needs(food,survival,sex,etc), we would be like animals with lower intelligence (not that there is anything wrong with that). But being 98% champ ourselves, we do have biological needs, but sometimes it's better to resist them--such as having a big mac or beef cheese burger everyday-they may be delicious and you crave them, but in the end you know self-discipline is good for you.
Second, I find being organized actually has a lot of benefit for our mood, productivity, health, and physical well being overall. When I am very chaotic and spontaneous, I may sleep very irregularly, eat a lot of junk food, sit on the couch watching tv for long hours, not going out for a day, not interacting with other people--all of those made me feel miserable and my health deteriorating--that is when I often get a uneasy feeling of my heartbeat. But just for two weeks I switched my lifestyle--go to bed before 11pm and get up before 7am everyday, it completely changed. I felt much more energetic (even though I slept less but I actually am less sleepy during the day), eager to do things, being productive, wanting to interact with people--all of these things, including my diet habits become incredibly systematic and I couldn't feel better. Being unorganized can be happy at the moment but later I always come to regret it and it caused me more pain; being organized, it felt always so good. Well, it's just the matter of not to sink into that hell again-i have to regulate myself too.
Third, speaking from a physics point of view, spontaneously, the world is going more and more unsystematic, unorganized, and chaotic. This is the theory of entropy。 Without control, the tendency of the universe is to get more and more chaotic, and it requires energy to actually turn them into systematic.
German scientist Rudolf Clausius is credited with the first formulation of the second law, now known as the Clausius statement:
No process is possible whose sole result is the transfer of heat from a body of lower temperature to a body of higher temperature.
Spontaneously, heat cannot flow from cold regions to hot regions without external work being performed on the system, which is evident from ordinary experience of refrigeration, for example. In a refrigerator, heat flows from cold to hot, but only when forced by an external agent, a compressor.
Lord Kelvin expressed the second law in another form. The Kelvin statement expresses it as follows:
No process is possible in which the sole result is the absorption of heat from a reservoir and its complete conversion into work.
A change in the entropy (S) of a system is the infinitesimal transfer of heat (Q) to a closed system driving a reversible process, divided by the equilibrium temperature (T) of the system.
dS = \frac{\delta Q}{T} \!
Actually a long time ago when I was in high school, in a paper that we wrote for a science contest, called "Resolving Energy Crisis on Earth", I remember we stated at the out front of the paper, that the energy crisis on earth does not mean that the amount of energy on earth is getting reduced; rather, according to the law of energy conservation, the total amount of energy is constant, whereas there are less and less energy available for human use--to convert them into work, so to speak.The key here is that according to the second law of thermodynamics, as the entropy increases, more and more energy becomes obsolete and cannot be re-organized for use again.
Thus,to sum up, why not become more organized?
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