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.
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。
評分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。
評分單是書名《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。
評分這本書的標題,"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。
評分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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