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Why Disorder May Be Good For Us
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Why Disorder May Be Good For Us
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A conversation about life's unseen patterns.
We often spend lots of time making our lives orderly. But mess can be good for us. Three Lions/Getty Images
This Week
âClean up this mess!â
This is a command youâve probably given or received in your life. Perhaps in the last day, or even the last hour.
To many of us, the desire to bring order to chaos â to tidy up our kidsâ toys, organize an overstuffed closet, or rake up the leaves covering the lawn â can be nearly irresistible. And itâs a desire that extends to other aspects of our lives: Managers tell employees to get organized. Politicians are elected on promises to clean up Washington. And so on.
But economist and writer Tim Harford thinks weâre underestimating the value of disorder. In this episode of Hidden Brain, we talk with Harford about his new book, Messy, and how an embrace of chaos is beneficial to musicians, speechmakers, politicians â and the rest of us.
[Listen to Episode #53]
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