Organizing For Your Brain Type and The Family Reunion
The book Organizing For Your Brain Type by Lanna Nakone is one of the most useful books I have ever purchased. No doubt I will write about it more than once simply because there is so much to learn that condensing it into one blog post would not do it justice. In this particular installment, I will give a brief description about what the book is about then describe how we used it in an unconventional way at our family reunion.
This is a book about organization. What makes it unique within the “declutter, feng-shui, get organized” genre though is that it recognizes that there is more than one way to skin a cat and it is based on brain types. The book opens with a survey of 50 multiple-choice questions that delineate your brain type: Maintaining, Harmonizing, Innovating, or Prioritizing. The author draws on the work of Dr. Arlene Taylor, a brain functioning specialist, to define the four types. For instance, the Maintaining type is a traditional organizer, one who is habitual, accurate, punctual but perhaps a little rigid. The Harmonizing type is holistic, and nurturing but maybe too sentimental to throw anything away. The Innovating type, who is usually known as “the type who can’t get organized”, is creative, adventurous, but also easily sidetracked. The last type is Prioritizing which is a logical problem solver but a little on the judgemental side.