“Utterly fascinating. Tim Harford shows that if you want to be creative and resilient, you nee
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“Utterly fascinating. Tim Harford shows that if you want to be creative and resilient, you need a little more disorder in your world.” —Adam Grant, New York Times-bestselling author of Originals and Give and Take
“Engrossing.” —New York Times
From the award-winning columnist and author of the national bestseller The Undercover Economist comes a provocative big idea book about the genuine benefits of being messy: at home, at work, in the classroom, and beyond.Look out for Tim's next book, Fifty Inventions That Shaped the Modern Economy.Messy: The Power of Disorder to Transform Our Lives celebrates the benefits that messiness has in our lives: why it’s important, why we resist it, and why we should embrace it instead. Using research from neuroscience, psychology, social science, as well as captivating examples of real people doing extraordinary things, Tim Harford explains that the human qualities we value – creativity, responsiveness, resilience – are integral to the disorder, confusion, and disarray that produce them.
From the music studio of Brian Eno to the Lincoln Memorial with Martin Luther King, Jr., from the board room to the classroom, messiness lies at the core of how we innovate, how we achieve, how we reach each other – in short, how we succeed.
In Messy, you’ll learn about the unexpected connections between creativity and mess; understand why unexpected changes of plans, unfamiliar people, and unforeseen events can help generate new ideas and opportunities as they make you anxious and angry; and come to appreciate that the human inclination for tidiness – in our personal and professional lives, online, even in children’s play – can mask deep and debilitating fragility that keep us from innovation.
Stimulating and readable as it points exciting ways forward, Messy is an insightful exploration of the real advantages of mess in our lives.
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You must read this book! Tim Harford's writing style is exceptional. He gets the density of ideas per page just right: a higher density would be overwhelming and a lower density would be long-winded. Few authors are so good at striking such a compromise, consistently, in every book they write.
Messy's main thread is how unexpected (often bad) situations can produce great outcomes. It argues that we should try to provoke such situations to improve our lot, and gives countless vivid examples of this. The one that hits closest to home in my case is changing tasks every few years (or even changing fields of work entirely) keeps employees engaged, on their toes and productive. We don't do enough of this.
I've read everything Tim Harford has written (in popular economics), and if I qualify as an educated lay person in economics, it's because of him. I've found this book, and his other book 'Adapt' to be remarkably reassuring and encouraging to a congenitally messy, procrastinating, inclined-to-fail human being. Read it to be enlightened and uplifted!
I loved this. Tim Harford never fails to deliver and this book is no exception. It's chock full of vivid stories and evidence to illustrate his point. I'm so happy realizing that it's okay to be messy and not have everything sorted just right. I am in fact better off with a little creative chaos. Thank you, Tim Harford!
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