Curiouseful - useful

every emotion is a GPS signal steering you towards or away from your goals most of your emotions are experienced in relationship to a goal you establish a goal, then movement towards that goal or evidence that you could move towards that goal makes you happy evidence that the goal is invalid or that you're blocked in some way, produces negative emotion it works as subtly as this: you walk into your room, you want to walk to pick something up and your room is cluttered because you've been careless all that clutter manifests as an obstacle to your goal and produces negative emotion and you experience that instantaneously and automatically so that's a part of a reason why Jordan would always encourage people to clean up their room it's a microcosm of all this your room is a part of your experience that you have control over it's easy to underestimate its significance, but that's a place you can alter. you can set it up for whatever it is that you're doing well, what are you doing? that's the first question that you have to ask yourself if you're going to set up your room it's not trivial it's hard and it's worthwhile and it's a good starting place