Chaos. How a mess changes our life for the better

About the book
"The economist under the cover of" Tim Harford tells how a little mess and chaos can make you more creative and productive.

The idea on which this book is based is that we often succumb to the temptation of "neat mind", when in fact we better succumb to a certain degree of disorder.

This applies to a public speaker who remains faithful to the script, a military leader who carefully studies a strategy, a writer who seeks not to be distracted, a policy who sets measurable goals in the field of public services, a boss, who insists on clean tables for everyone, The leader of the group, who strives for all team members to get along with each other. We succumb to the temptation of purity in our everyday life, when we spend time on archive mail, fill out profiles on dating sites that promise to choose the perfect partner, or send children to the local playground instead of allowing them to freely run around the district.

Of course, sometimes the desire to clean the cleanliness - our seemingly innate desire to create an orderly world, subject to quantitative assessment, neatly structured in clear categories, planned and predictable - is useful. Otherwise, this instinct would not take root so much