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Before Breakfast

Second Cup: Should you make your bed?

Before Breakfast

iHeartPodcasts

Self-improvement, Education

4.51.5K Ratings

🗓️ 1 August 2020

⏱️ 7 minutes

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Summary

Sometimes order matters, but sometimes good enough is good enough

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0:29.8

Welcome to Before Breakfast, a production of I Heart Radio.

0:37.0

Good morning. This is Laura.

0:41.0

Welcome to the Before Breakfast Podcast.

0:44.0

Today's tip is about that age-old question of whether an orderly environment makes people

0:49.6

more productive.

0:51.2

Is it worth it to make your bed in the morning?

0:53.0

To clean your desk before quitting time?

0:55.0

To pick up the house before bed.

0:58.0

I know lots of people feel strongly about this,

1:00.0

but I think that this has more to do with personality than whether there's an objectively correct answer.

1:06.0

A few years ago, like many people, I listened to Admiral William H. McCraven's commencement speech,

1:12.0

telling graduates that if they want to

1:14.0

change the world, they should start by making their beds. The idea is that how we

1:19.2

do little things and the order we create around us through these little victories is what allows us to do big things in the long run.

1:27.2

Lots of people agree with the Admiral. His speech has been viewed more than 10 million times.

1:32.0

I'd point out that his speech was actually more about various other lessons he learned

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