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Anecdotally, I noticed that I am much happier and more focused after I clean and declutter my apartment. Clean, flat surfaces, nothing for your brain to process.

Even if it's your own apartment or a house, your brain will constantly have a "thread" firing on all cylinders that tries to parse what you are seeing, non-stop.

If it's things all around you, small details, objects - it will sap your mental energy and you won't even know why.

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I feel this as well, and increasingly as I get older. It drives me to simplify my office over and over, or at least add storage elements that can hide clutter. Our dystopian future visions for AR always include an extreme visual chaos of ads — maybe the killer app future for AR is actually to remove extraneous visual noise, much like noise-cancelling headphones.

My girlfriend (who has quite severe ADHD) is exactly like you. Before she can get any work done in our office everything needs to be put away/organized/in it's place or she'll get detracted all the time.

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