Is there such a thing as a perfect level of mess?
There is a perfect level of mess. The trick is finding it. Additionally, the book exalts some of the benefits of mess. There is a creative aspect to it -- a mess often enables you to make connections between things you wouldn't have otherwise put together.
What is a Perfect Mess by Eric Abrahamson?
A Perfect Mess: The Hidden Benefits of Disorder; How crammed closets, cluttered offices, and on-the-fly planning make the world a better place by Eric Abrahamson & David H. Freedman is a dense, irreverent, thought-provoking rallying cry against the modern march to perfectionism. It is charming. The message? "Dude, chill."
Is a Perfect Mess a true story?
No longer!With a spectacular array of true stories and case studies of the hidden benefits of mess,A Perfect Mess overturns the accepted wisdom that ti Ever since Einstein's study of Brownian Motion, scientists have understood that a little disorder can actually make systems more effective.
Do you suffer guilt over the mess you can't avoid?
But most people still shun disorder-or suffer guilt over the mess they can't avoid. No longer!With a spectacular array of true stories and case studies of the hidden benefits of mess,A Perfect Mess overturns the accepted wisdom that ti
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If you are messy and disorganized, this book will make you feel justified in your piles and clutter. If you're organized, the cover is a soothing Real-Simple shade of blue. This book has something for everyone.
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tl:dr
Procrastinating can be productive. It keeps you away from working on the wrong goals. Also leveraging new solutions later can be more beneficial than paving the way for innovations.
The Benefits of Being Messy
What's the advantage of being organized? “When asked how they (professional organizers) determine whether a potential client is likely to get more out of organizing than she puts into it, professional organizers at the conference respond that they don’t make that determination; they just provide clients with whatever help they’re looking for.
Organizations, competition, noise
Does being more organized serve us? “Jared Diamond, for one, has questioned whether the whole agriculture thing was a smart move, pointing out that hunter-gatherers might have had it pretty good; - today in Africa’s Kalahari Desert hunter-gatherers work fifteen hours a week, give or take, and spend most of the rest of the time sleeping and in leisure activities.”.
Innovate and Growth while Being Messy
Hawthorne effect: “These studies clearly demonstrated that worker output improved when any change was introduced to the work environment or processes.This sort of improvement, now known as the Hawthorne effect, is simply due to the fact that people tend to try harder when they know they’re being observed.”
Clean homes, shuffle, and flexible contracts
Order means something else for everyone: “...if the CDs are organized alphabetically by performer, then they will be randomly organized with regard to type of music. That’s another mess principle, of course: to organize in one way is to mess up in another.”
