5/3/2023 0 Comments Tidiness vs creativity![]() ![]() ![]() the Superman riding position) were actually banned. The anecdotal information also dominates over the scientific evidence, and I found my level of interest was more than usually dependent on whether the subjects were ones that grabbed my attention and which I even regarded as examples to which to aspire.īeing told that if only authors embraced the Messy mantra they could all write novels as well as Michael Crichton hardly leaves me inspired, and Harford seems bizarrely obsessed with the music of Brian Eno.īut I could identify more when Hartford points out that while British cyclings success nowadays may be built on "marginal gains", in the 1990s Graham Obree was able to achieve such significant one-off gains with radical changes that many of his innovations (e.g. The key learning points are often buried away in the anecdotes and hence context specific, and, for better and for worse, this isn't one of those business books where reading an executive summary or a well-written review largely removes the need to read the book itself. It is certainly an interesting and thought provoking read.īusiness books of this type usually rely onī) references to scientific research done elsewhereĪ) and b) are certainly every bit as omnipresent as one would expect, but, perhaps reflecting the ethos of the book itself, there is no tidy summary c). Tim Harford, the FT's Undercover Economist, has written this book to, in his own words, "explain that the human qualities we value – creativity, responsiveness, resilience – are integral to the disorder, confusion, and disarray that produce them." The worker with the messy inbox ultimately gets more done we find a soulmate when we ignore the website questionanaires the kids running loose in the wasteland not only have fun and learn more skills, but also - counter-intuitively - have fewer accidents. ![]() The scripted speech misreads the energy of the room the careful commander is disorientated by a more impetuous opponent the writer is serendipitously inspired by a random distraction the quantified targets create perverse incentives the workers in the tidy office feel helpless and demotivated a disruptive outsider aggravates the team but brings a fresh new insight. Stimulating and readable as it points exciting ways forward, is an insightful exploration of the real advantages of mess in our lives.īut often we are so seduced by the blandishments of tidiness that we fail to appreciate the virtues of the messy - the untidy, unquantified, uncoordinated, improvised, imperfect, incoherent, crude, cluttered, random, ambiguous, vague, difficult,m diverse or even dirty. In, 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. 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.įrom 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. Celebrates the benefits that messiness has in our lives: why it’s important, why we resist it, and why we should embrace it instead.
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