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Neat People Vs Sloppy People By Suzanne Britt Summary

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At what point will a mess in your home, start to look organized to you? In Suzanne Britt's "Neat People Vs. Sloppy people", she gives large amounts of insight to show you how valuable sloppy people are to her. Explaining how sloppy people make use of everything around them and how they are more positive and have a better chance at living a good life. Britt makes the readers understand that she has a deep appreciation for these sloppy warriors and those sloppy people should be more valued in today's world. Sloppy people are what makes the world the way it is today. In Suzanne Britt's "Neat People vs. Sloppy People", Britt sees sloppy people as creative, sentimental, and ambitious beings.
Suzanne Britt views sloppy people as naturally creative people. Only creative people would "make family scrapbooks into which they will put newspaper clippings, postcards, locks of hair, and the dried corsage from their senior …show more content…

They always feel the need to get something sort out or well grouped. Even when sloppy people say they will do something very simplistic like “tackle the surface of a desk” they will absolutely stick to it (Britt 215). Sloppy people all have ideas on what to do next and what they want to deal with at the moment. No matter how messy things get, they always have another idea on how to fix it all. Sloppy people are always “planning someday to file, order, and straighten out the world” (Britt 215). Planning to straighten out the whole world seems so impossible but not in the eyes of sloppy people even when the odds are against them, they will certainly find a way to fix everything that needs fixing. Ambition makes sloppy people so well loved because who would not love an hard working and work dedicated person on their team? Qualities like these give huge advantages for new workers. Britt understands how ambitious and how pride full the sloppy person can

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