Understand why you struggle with organization, learn to address it, and go about your pursuits with confidence

Some brilliant people with excellent ideas have difficulty organizing their thoughts. Because sharing concepts requires organization, they struggle to bring their ideas to the rest of the world. These people, simplistically labeled “disorganized,” are often overlooked and their ideas unheard. 

Members of this group are often bottom-up thinkers: people whose thinking starts with the details and builds up to the whole. However, without understanding how organization works, these thinkers can feel out of control of their thoughts, experiencing them as swirling in their minds. The pieces of their thinking feel trapped, without sufficient organizational structure to bring them into the world. 

Many people - family, friends, colleagues, professionals - want to help these bottom-up thinkers express their ideas, and indeed, these thinkers are typically very motivated to have their thoughts organized and understood. But others’ attempts to manage their thought process feel stifling because others’ ideas of organization do not apply to their way of thinking. Instead, bottom-up thinkers crave an approach to organizing that validates their part-to-whole thought process. They want to structure their ideas, so they can come into the world the as they think about them. 

In other words, they want to organize from the bottom up.

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