We’ve been told in our childhood that „Tidiness is the essence of harmony”, yet we may often conclude that we do indeed pay a heavy price for the relative order that is maintained around us.
This book calls our attention to the fact that in many cases one can save high cost by keeping mess to a certain degree, particularly in the area of creativity, which begins when order ends!
As an example they mention the discovery of penicillin, which was due to the analysis of a patch of mould that was found by Alexander Fleming in a messy Saint Mary’s hospital laboratory.
A paradigm shift is about the importance of certain mess, saying „early planning means double planning” in other words it’s not worth thinking too far ahead, rather better to adapt to the problems when facing.
The same adaptiveness and flexibility is adviced, saying if not sticking to pre-planned time schedules, but allowing actions to take on the spur of the moment can lead to results far beyond our expectations. The writers warn us of the unblessed consequences of an overly clean household, since maintaining such cleanliness requires continuous effort, and demands energy from each family members, while maniac attitude towards tidiness detracts the atmosphere of happiness in a home, furthermore the frequent use of detergents simply stimulate the emergence of bacterial strains.
The cleaning sector is a naturally big business, apart from the sales of detergents and cleaning agents, the use of wardrobes, filing systems, shelves, bins, compartments, and classifiers on offer, all suggest that without such stuff, the ever increasing number of items in use wouldn’t even be found, facing the chaos around.
If we do not keep around a certain degree of healthy mess, then our growing standards of spotlessness will leave us no choice, but to adapt to such standards, and devote even more unnecessary resources to the omnipotence of tidiness.
However the greatest advantage of a healthy degree of mess is that it reduces stress which is caused by the continuous requirement of order!
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