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齣版社: Riverhead Books
ISBN:9781594634802
商品編碼:26851330570
齣版時間:2017-10-03
頁數:292
正文語種:英文

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Messy: The Power of Disorder to Transform Our Lives


Author:Tim Harford

Paperback: 292 pages

Publisher: Riverhead Books ; Reprint edition ( 2017-10-03 )

Language: English

ISBN-10: 1594634807

ISBN-13: 978-1594634802

Product Dimensions: 13.7 x 2 x 21.1 cm


內容簡介

"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.

Review

"Harford's argument goes beyond aesthetics, resurfacing over and over in his engrossing narrative." --The New York Times Book Review

"Utterly fascinating. Tim Harford shows that if you want to be creative and resilient, you need a little more disorder in your world. It's a masterful case for the life-changing magic of cluttering up." --Adam Grant, New York Times-bestselling author of Originals and Give and Take

"[Messy] goes beyond the well-worn discussion over messy desks as a sign of creativity. . . Rather, he tackles the notion more conceptually, examining why rigid targets can wreak havoc, how unpredictable leaders get ahead, and when flexibility and improvisation matter more." --The Washington Post

"Masterful." --The Economist

"Messy is neither a broadside at Marie Kondo and her cult of minimalism nor a case for the hidden virtues of hoarding. Harford, an acclaimed economics journalist, isn't so much extolling squalor as questioning the notion that order is inherently preferable for creative endeavors." --Time

"[Messy] plays to Harford's prodigious strengths: the ability to tell engrossing human stories, and the ability to use those stories to convey complex, statistical ideas that make your life better." --Boing Boing

"It's a very, very good book, full of wise counter-intuitions and clever insights." --Brian Eno, musician and record producer

"A book that presents itself as an impossibly simple account of the virtues of a messy workspace, then builds to something extraordinary." --The Age

"This absorbing book offers a different approach from instructional decluttering manuals by celebrating the successes derived from the unplanned, uns cripted, and unknown." --Library Journal

"Weaving together lessons from history, art, technology, and social and scientific research, Harford's theories have many potential benefits for individuals and businesses seeking to remain on the creative cutting edge, as well as profound implications for society." --Publishers Weekly

"Harford presents the strategies of disorganization as unique and enlightening and convincingly offers reinforced encouragement to those who may find themselves 'tempted by tidiness' to instead 'embrace some mess instead.'" --Kirkus

"Ranging expertly across business, politics and the arts, Tim Harford makes a compelling case for the creative benefits of disorganization, improvisation and confusion. His liberating message: you'll be more successful if you stop struggling so hard to plan or control your success. Messy is a deeply researched, endlessly eye-opening adventure." --Oliver Burkeman, author of The Antidote: Happiness for People Who Can't Stand Positive Thinking

"Tim's best and deepest book." --Tyler Cowen, New York Times-bestselling author of Average Is Over

Praise for Tim Harford

"Every Tim Harford book is a cause for celebration." --Malcolm Gladwell

"One of the best writers who also happens to be an economist." --Stephen Dubner

Book Des cription

The new book from the author of The Undercover Economist shows us how we can lead messier lives - and why we should. --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.

From the Inside Flap

Messy celebrates the benefits that messiness has in our lives: why it's important, why we resist it, and why we should embrace it instead. Drawing from research in neuroscience, psychology, and 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, Harford lays out the unexpected connections between creativity and mess; investigates why unexpected changes of plans, unfamiliar people, and unforeseen events can help generate new ideas and opportunities as they make us anxious and angry; and argues 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.

--This text refers to the Hardcover edition.

From the Back Cover

'Ranging expertly across business, politics and the arts, Tim Harford makes a compelling case for the creative benefits of disorganization, improvisation and confusion. His liberating message: you'll be more successful if you stop struggling so hard to plan or control your success. Messy is a deeply researched, endlessly eye-opening adventure in the life-changing magic of not tidying up' Oliver Burkeman --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.


作者簡介

Tim Harford is an award-winning journalist, economist and broadcaster. He's the author of the bestselling The Undercover Economist, The Undercover Economist Strikes Back, Adapt, and The Logic of Life. 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 best business-relevant economics writing, and won the Bastiat Prize for economic journalism (2006). He's a visiting fellow of Nuffield College at Oxford University and lives in Oxford with his family.


《混沌:混亂改變我們的生活》是一本引人入勝的著作,它深刻探討瞭在我們看似有序的生活中,無處不在的“混沌”所扮演的關鍵角色。這本書並非教導我們如何擁抱混亂,而是引導我們理解混沌的本質,認識到它並非總是負麵的,有時反而是創新、成長和變革的強大催化劑。作者以其敏銳的觀察力和淵博的知識,將科學、心理學、社會學、曆史以及我們日常生活中的無數案例巧妙地編織在一起,為讀者呈現瞭一幅關於混沌力量的宏大畫捲。 在現代社會,我們往往被教導要追求秩序、控製和可預測性。從童年時期開始,我們就被灌輸瞭“規則”、“方法”和“步驟”,仿佛人生是一張需要精確描繪的藍圖。然而,現實遠非如此簡單。生活中充斥著意料之外的事件、突如其來的變化,以及那些難以用既定模式解釋的復雜現象。這本書正是要挑戰我們固有的認知,讓我們重新審視這些“不完美”和“不確定性”。 作者首先從科學的角度剖析瞭“混沌”的概念。它並非指完全的隨機或無序,而是一種在確定性係統中錶現齣的極端敏感性,即“蝴蝶效應”。一個微小的初始變化,經過一係列復雜的相互作用,可能導緻截然不同的結果。這種現象廣泛存在於天氣係統、股票市場、生態環境,甚至我們大腦的神經活動中。理解瞭科學上的混沌,我們便能初步體會到,即使在看似規律的領域,也潛藏著巨大的不確定性。這本書通過生動的例子,比如氣象學傢如何預測風暴,經濟學傢如何分析市場波動,讓我們看到科學傢們如何試圖理解和利用這種內在的混沌性,而不是單純地排斥它。 從心理學的角度來看,我們對混亂的恐懼和排斥源於大腦對安全感和控製感的天然需求。當麵對不確定性時,我們的焦慮水平會升高,並傾嚮於采取保守的、熟悉的策略。然而,作者指齣,這種對秩序的過度追求,反而可能阻礙我們發現新的可能性。許多偉大的發明和發現,都並非源於計劃周詳的實驗室,而是誕生於意外的碰撞、錯誤的嘗試,甚至是“走彎路”。例如,青黴素的發現,就是弗萊明在實驗室意外發現黴菌抑製細菌生長。這種“意外”正是混沌思維在科學探索中的體現。 書中還深入探討瞭混沌在創新過程中的作用。傳統的創新模式常常強調係統性、可控性和風險規避,這在很大程度上限製瞭創新的邊界。然而,真正的顛覆性創新,往往伴隨著對現有秩序的挑戰,以及對未知領域的探索。作者通過分析眾多成功企業的案例,如榖歌早期的“20%時間”政策,鼓勵員工在完成本職工作之餘,自由探索感興趣的項目,這便是為混沌的萌芽提供瞭空間。這種允許試錯、鼓勵實驗的環境,纔更容易催生齣意想不到的突破。這本書讓我們看到,並非所有混沌都是破壞性的,有些混沌是孕育創新的沃土。 在社會和組織層麵,這本書也提供瞭深刻的見解。過度僵化的組織結構和流程,雖然能夠保證效率和穩定性,但也容易扼殺創造力,使得組織對外部環境的變化反應遲鈍。相反,那些具有一定“彈性”和“自組織”能力的組織,更能適應快速變化的市場和技術。作者援引瞭一些在危機中錶現齣驚人韌性的社區和組織,它們並非依賴嚴格的指令,而是依靠成員之間的自發協作和靈活應變。這種“湧現”齣的秩序,正是混沌力量在集體行為中的體現。 更重要的是,這本書不僅僅是理論的探討,它還提供瞭如何與生活中的混沌共存的實用智慧。作者並非鼓吹隨波逐流,而是提倡一種“擁抱不確定性”的心態。這意味著我們要學會接受事物並非總如我們所願,並從中尋找機會。比如,在工作中,麵對突如其來的項目變更,與其抱怨和抵觸,不如將其視為學習新技能、拓展新領域的機會。在人際關係中,理解他人行為中的“非理性”或“難以預測”之處,並嘗試以更包容的態度去解讀,反而可能帶來更深刻的連接。 書中對於“混沌”的理解,並非簡單地將其與“糟糕”劃等號,而是將其看作是宇宙萬物運行的一種基本規律。從宇宙的誕生到生命的演化,混沌都扮演著不可或缺的角色。沒有混沌,一切都將趨於停滯和僵化。這本書的價值在於,它讓我們擺脫瞭對秩序的過度迷戀,認識到適度的混亂對於激發活力、推動進步的重要性。 作者還通過一係列引人入勝的故事,將抽象的理論變得觸手可及。他講述瞭藝術傢如何從看似雜亂的筆觸中創作齣傑作,音樂傢如何運用即興創作的自由度創造齣動人的鏇律,以及運動員如何在瞬息萬變的賽場上憑藉直覺做齣關鍵決策。這些例子都生動地展現瞭混沌在人類創造力和適應力中的重要作用。 這本書的核心觀點是,我們不必懼怕生活中的不確定性和混亂,而是應該學會與其建立一種更健康、更富有成效的關係。這意味著我們需要培養一種“適應性思維”,能夠快速調整策略,從變化中學習,並利用意想不到的機會。它鼓勵我們放下對完美控製的執念,擁抱生命中的“不確定性”,因為正是這些不確定性,纔使得生活充滿可能,也使得我們自身變得更加強大和有韌性。 總而言之,《混沌:混亂改變我們的生活》是一本深刻而實用的著作,它挑戰瞭我們對秩序的固有認知,揭示瞭混沌作為一種普遍存在的現象,是如何在我們生活的方方麵麵,包括科學、創新、個人成長和社會組織中,發揮著至關重要的作用。它教會我們,與其對抗混沌,不如理解它、利用它,從而在這個不斷變化的世界中,找到屬於自己的獨特路徑,並實現更深層次的成長和突破。這是一本能夠改變你看待世界方式的書,也是一本能夠啓發你擁抱生活中無限可能性的指南。

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單是書名《混亂:混亂改變我們的生活》,就足以勾起我的好奇心。萬維剛老師的推薦更是讓我覺得這本書非同尋常。我一直覺得,在當今社會,我們被太多的信息、太多的選擇、太多的“應該”所裹挾,有時候反而失去瞭方嚮,變得更加焦慮和不知所措。這本書的標題恰恰點齣瞭一個我內心深處常常會思考的問題:我們是否過於追求一種虛假的、錶麵的“秩序”,而忽略瞭真正能讓我們成長和前進的力量,可能恰恰就隱藏在那些我們試圖迴避和壓製的“混亂”之中?我大膽猜測,這本書將會挑戰我們對“成功”和“穩定”的傳統定義,甚至會顛覆我們對於“效率”和“方法”的固有認知。它會不會告訴我們,那些看似雜亂無章的靈感、那些突如其來的變故、那些並非按部就班的嘗試,纔是激發創造力、實現突破性進展的真正源泉?我非常期待這本書能夠提供一些全新的視角,幫助我重新認識“混亂”的價值,並學會如何在這種“混亂”中找到方嚮,甚至駕馭它,讓它成為推動我生活前進的強大動力。它或許會是一本能夠幫助我們擺脫思維定勢,擁抱不確定性,從而活齣更精彩人生的指南。

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這本書的標題,"混亂:混亂改變我們的生活",讓我一下子就被吸引住瞭。我一直覺得,我們所處的時代,似乎都在極力推崇秩序、效率和可控性,仿佛一切都應該按照預設的軌道運行。然而,我內心深處卻常常會感受到一種微妙的抵觸,覺得這種過度的“規整”反而讓生活變得有些單調乏味,甚至喪失瞭一些生氣。所以,當看到“混亂”被賦予“力量”並被提及“改變生活”時,我的好奇心被徹底點燃瞭。萬維剛老師的推薦,更是為這本書增添瞭幾分權威性,我對他所推崇的書籍總是抱有極高的期待。我揣測,這本書或許會從一個非常規的角度,顛覆我們對“混亂”的傳統認知,將其解讀為一種積極的、甚至是必不可少的催化劑。它是否會探討,在科學研究、藝術創作、商業創新,乃至個人成長中,適度的“混亂”是如何孕育齣突破性想法的?它是否會鼓勵我們放下對完美狀態的執念,擁抱過程中的不確定性和“不完美”,從而發現更廣闊的可能性?我非常期待這本書能夠為我打開一扇新的窗戶,讓我能夠用一種更開放、更包容的心態去審視生活中的種種“失序”之處,並從中找到激發潛能、促進改變的契機。

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這本書給我的第一印象便是它那不落俗套的書名。“Messy”,這個詞在日常生活中通常帶著貶義,讓人聯想到雜亂、無序、甚至是糟糕的狀況。但“The Power of D”的副標題,以及萬維剛老師的推薦,卻暗示著這本書將要探討的,並非是簡單的“亂”本身,而是“混亂”之中蘊含的某種強大力量。我猜想,作者可能是在反駁一種普遍的、過度強調秩序和控製的文化,試圖揭示那些被我們刻意迴避或壓製的“混亂”麵,其實纔是孕育創新、成長和真正活力的源泉。我非常好奇,作者會從哪些角度來論證“混亂”的力量?是心理學上的?社會學的?還是生物學的?亦或是哲學層麵的?這本書會不會挑戰我們對“成功”和“高效”的傳統定義?它是否會鼓勵我們放下過度的焦慮,擁抱不完美,允許自己和周圍的世界有更多的“縫隙”和“不確定性”?我希望它能提供一些切實可行的方法,幫助讀者在日益復雜和快速變化的世界中,找到一種更靈活、更具韌性的生存之道。它可能不僅僅是一本理論書籍,更像是一本人生指南,指引我們如何在“混亂”的大海中,找到屬於自己的航嚮。

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我看到這本書的名字,《混亂:混亂改變我們的生活》,還有萬維剛老師的推薦,就覺得這本書一定不一般。萬老師的書單裏,總能找到很多能讓人眼前一亮的、非常有深度的作品,所以我也對這本《混亂》産生瞭濃厚的興趣。我總覺得,現代社會在很多方麵都在追求極緻的“整齊劃一”和“規範化”,但與此同時,也似乎扼殺瞭很多潛在的可能性和創造力。這本書的名字直擊瞭這一點,讓我忍不住去思考,“混亂”真的有那麼可怕嗎?是不是有時候,我們過於害怕打破常規,害怕未知,所以纔錯過瞭很多重要的東西?我猜想,這本書可能會從一個全新的角度,來剖析我們生活中存在的那些“混亂”現象,並告訴我們,這些“混亂”並非一無是處,反而可能蘊含著巨大的能量和機會。它會不會引導我們認識到,那些看似雜亂的思緒、不按部就班的行動,甚至是生活中齣現的一些意料之外的狀況,都有可能成為我們突破瓶頸、實現飛躍的契機?我期待這本書能給我帶來一些啓發,讓我能夠更加坦然地麵對生活中的不確定性,甚至能夠主動去擁抱一些“混亂”,從中發現屬於自己的力量。

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這本書的書名就充滿瞭吸引力,"混亂:混亂改變我們的生活"。聽起來就像是那種會讓人在深夜裏捧著,一邊喝著冷掉的咖啡,一邊思考人生的大部頭。我一直對那些能夠顛覆我們習以為常的看法的書充滿好奇,而這本書似乎就屬於這一類。想象一下,我們從小到大被教導要整潔、有序、有條理,生活中的一切都要盡可能的“不混亂”。但如果,這本書恰恰要告訴我們,這種“不混亂”纔是束縛我們的枷鎖呢?這是一種多麼具有顛覆性的想法!萬維剛老師的推薦也讓我對這本書的質量有瞭初步的信心,畢竟他的選書眼光嚮來獨到,總能發掘齣那些真正有價值、有深度的作品。我迫不及待地想要翻開它,看看作者是如何將“混亂”這樣一個充滿負麵含義的詞,變成一種賦能的力量。我期待這本書能給我帶來全新的視角,去重新審視那些看似“雜亂無章”的生活片段,或許會從中發現意想不到的寶藏,或者解鎖一些被我們忽略的可能性。它可能會鼓勵我擁抱不確定性,而不是逃避;它可能會讓我學會從看似無序的現象中找到隱藏的模式;它甚至可能會改變我對待工作、學習,乃至人際關係的方式。這本書,就像一個即將被打開的潘多拉魔盒,充滿瞭未知,也充滿瞭驚喜。

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