Inside a Piler's Mind
We now know that the piler brain typically has fantastic creating elements. They bring fun, innovation and beauty to our lives. For years we marginalized pilers because they looked like slackers. In reality, many geniuses were probably pilers: Einstein, Picasso, Beethoven, da Vinci. An educated guess is that many architects, writers, artists, inventors, designers, and entrepreneurs have the Piler gene, which hasn't been identified yet, but I'm sure it's there.
My theories about pilers are:
1. They use multi-tasking, multi-minding and random-order processing to innovate. They can cook breakfast, feed the dog, read the paper and answering email all within the same space of time and in no particular order.
2. They quickly switch from conscious to sub-conscious in order to pack in the data points on the creations they are brewing. Switching gives each idea space to breath.
3. They think in a circular fashion because they see connections everywhere, while linear thinking limits their creativity.
Oftentimes, pilers do not like their work to be put away and buttoned-up. The folks at Pendaflex are getting that point. They've created a product line called PileSmart to help pilers stay organized. The Project Sorter is great for housing beefy projects or task sets. The papers destined for a project sorter can at least land near the sorter until you have a few minutes for sorting, which allows for a mix of creativity and rigidity.
We work tirelessly to customize and create solutions that work with creative piler minds. Sometimes pilers and their minds need help systemizing, simplifying, ordering and producing something out of their creative thoughts. They need flexible and adaptable solutions.
Still our society gets down on Pilers. As a person who helps Pilers be successful, I use creative visualization to stay positive. I imagine that our clients are the next Bill Gates or Georgia O'Keefe.
