Messy: The Power of Disorder to Transform Our Lives
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| Rating | : | 4.44 (789 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1594634793 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 304 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-05-09 |
| Language | : | English |
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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. Stimulating and readable as it points exciting ways forward, Messy is an insightful exploration of the real advantages of mess in our lives.. 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 pla
Tim Harford is an award-winning journalist, economist and broadcaster. He’s a visiting fellow of Nuffield College at Oxford University and lives in Oxford with his family. Harford is currently a senior columnist at the Financial Times and host of the BBC Radio 4 program More or Less. . He has been named Economics Commentator of the Year (2014), won the Rybczynski Prize (2014–15) for the
Martin Laurence said Tacky title, exceptionally good book!. 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. like those describing the problems with a rigidly fixed approach K. J. DellAntonia “Messy” isn’t so much an encouragement to disorder as it is the Life-Changing Magic of Coping with Mess. Most of the time, it’s a classic non-fiction book celebrating the power of disorder, difficulty and disarray to inspire creativity, with many an example from music, tech and art, rather than a how-to guide--presumably on the assumption that most of us don’t need on. D. B. Williams said Hope for the Hopeless. 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!
But if the only thing you get out of Messy is peace with the level of disorder at your coworkers', staff's, or spouse's workspace, then that alone is priceless. That alertness, in turn, fuels creativity, problem solving, better driving, resilience, innovation, and much more. An Best Book of October 2016: For those who think that a spick-and-span desk is an indication of high productivity, Harford's fascinating investigation of how disorder can spark innovation will open your eyes to all kinds of situations when tidiness is not a virtue. --Adrian Liang, The Book Review. From Brian Eno's fury-provoking Oblique Strategy cards that wrung a new sound from already talented musicians to how mixing differently talented teams can help them find solutions and keep their eye on the goal, Messy bolsters the theory