Yo, today's QOD is, when we get control over the stuff in our lives, we feel more in control of our lives generally.

Here we go.

Yeah. Welcome back to the quote of the day show.

I'm your host, Sean Croxton and Sean Croxon.com.

We got Gretchen Rubin on this show today. She's going to talk about how removing clutter from your physical space can make you feel calm,

focused, and give you more energy as well.

Gretchen Rubin's coming up. Now, sometimes people ask me,

what is my subject? And my subject is human nature. I'm interested in who we are. Why do we do

what we do? How can we change if we want to change? And for that reason, I've been

thinking and talking to people for years about subjects like happiness, good habits, self-knowledge.

And I noticed something surprising over and over. You know, I'd be talking to people about things like, how do we engage more deeply with

the people we love?

Or how do we make more time to read?

Or how do we know ourselves better?

And people would be very interested in this.

I'm super interested in it.

We'd have a great conversation.

But then the subject would turn to outer order and people would get

fired up.

There's something about this subject that just has a special emotional buzz to it.

I mean, take the question of make your bed.

How many people here regularly make their bed?

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