具體描述
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.
用戶評價
這本書的名字和萬維剛老師的推薦，瞬間就勾起瞭我的好奇心。我一直覺得生活中有太多“應該”和“不應該”，太多被規訓的秩序感，仿佛一切都應該按照既定的軌道運行，纔算得上“正常”和“成功”。但反觀現實，那些真正讓我覺得鮮活、有趣、甚至突破自我的時刻，往往都發生在那些不那麼“按部就班”的時刻。比如，靈感的突襲常常齣現在大腦放空的時候，意外的驚喜往往藏在計劃之外的轉角。我對這本書所探討的“混亂”充滿瞭期待，它會不會顛覆我對“混亂”的負麵認知？會不會揭示那些看似失序的背後，其實蘊含著強大的生命力？我希望它能提供一些全新的視角，讓我重新審視那些曾經讓我感到焦慮和不安的“不確定性”。是不是說，我們一直以來都在抗拒和壓抑著一種本能，而這本書正是要我們擁抱它，甚至利用它？我尤其好奇，它會如何闡釋“混亂”與“改變”之間的必然聯係。是說，我們必須經曆混亂，纔能迎來真正的變革？還是說，混亂本身就是一種變革的催化劑？這些問題都在我腦海中盤鏇，讓我迫不及待地想翻開它，尋找答案。
評分這本書的英文原版名“Messy: The Power of ”，光是看名字就覺得很有力量，而且是關於“力量”。“混亂”這個詞，在我們的日常語境中，往往帶著貶義，意味著無序、麻煩、低效。但如果它擁有“力量”，那這種力量究竟是什麼？它如何作用於我們的生活，甚至改變我們的生活？我一直覺得，很多時候，我們過於追求一種“綫性的發展”和“明確的目標”，這種思維模式雖然在某些領域非常有效，但在麵對復雜多變的現實世界時，卻顯得有些僵化。生活本身就是充滿隨機性和不確定性的，就像天氣一樣，我們無法完全預測，但卻可以學會如何適應和利用。我希望這本書能夠提供一種新的視角，讓我們從“對抗混亂”轉嚮“擁抱混亂”，學會從中提取養分，而不是感到沮喪。我很好奇，它會如何解釋“混亂”在創新、學習、人際關係，甚至個人幸福感中的作用。是不是說，正是那些不確定性，纔給瞭我們探索未知、激發潛能的空間？
評分讀到【中商原版】的字樣，就有一種原汁原味的期待感。加上“混亂：混亂改變我們的生活”這樣的標題，以及萬維剛老師的推薦，這股信息流疊加起來，實在太有吸引力瞭。我的直覺告訴我，這本書可能不是那種教你如何“管理”混亂的書，而是要我們理解並接受“混亂”作為一種常態，甚至將其視為一種力量。我們從小就被教育要“整潔”、“有序”，要“計劃周全”。很多時候，我們甚至會因為自己的“拖延”、“猶豫”或者“不確定”而自責，認為這是“混亂”的錶現，是需要被剋服的缺點。但是，如果“混亂”本身就具有其內在的力量，能夠驅動我們去探索、去創新、去成長，那我們是不是一直在誤解它？我希望這本書能夠深入探討“混亂”的心理學、社會學甚至生理學根源，讓我們明白，為什麼有時候，那些看似無序的狀態，反而能帶來更深刻的洞察和更強大的驅動力。我期待它能提供一些案例，展示那些偉大的發明、藝術作品，甚至成功的個人成長，是如何在“混亂”的土壤中孕育而齣的。
評分閱讀萬維剛老師的推薦，我總會聯想到他對於科學、理性思維的推崇。但這次他推薦的《Messy: The Power of 》，書名中就帶著一種反差，讓我覺得非常有趣。我的生活常常被各種“係統”和“規則”所包裹，從工作到生活，似乎處處都需要規劃和效率。我習慣於提前列好待辦事項，按照優先級逐一完成，努力讓生活顯得井井有條。然而，總有那麼一些時刻，計劃被突如其來的狀況打亂，而正是這些“意外”往往帶來瞭意想不到的收獲。比如，一次偶然的對話，就可能激發一個全新的項目思路；一次迷路，卻可能發現一傢隱藏的美味小店。我很好奇，這本書會如何解釋這種“混亂”的價值。是不是說，過度追求秩序，反而會扼殺掉我們潛在的創造力和適應性？它會不會提齣一些具體的策略，幫助我們在“混亂”中找到方嚮，而不是被淹沒？我猜想，這本書或許會挑戰我們對於“效率”和“完美”的定義，提醒我們，有時候，不完美的、充滿變數的纔是更真實、更有生命力的。我期待它能給我帶來一些關於如何在現代社會中保持靈活和創造力的新思考。
評分萬維剛老師的推薦，嚮來是品質的保證，而《Messy: The Power of 》，這個書名本身就充滿瞭一種探究的欲望。我最近常常思考“掌控感”這個概念。在信息爆炸、變化加速的時代，我們似乎都在努力抓住點什麼，試圖獲得一種掌控感，讓自己的生活和事業不至於被甩下。我們追求“效率”、“目標”、“規劃”，仿佛一切都在我們的掌控之中。但有時候，我也會懷疑，這種對“掌控”的極度追求，是不是也讓我們變得更加脆弱？一旦有什麼事情脫離瞭我們的預設軌道，我們就可能會感到失控和焦慮。我猜想，這本書可能會挑戰我們對於“掌控”的固有認知，提齣“混亂”本身可能就蘊含著一種更高級、更靈活的“力量”。它或許會告訴我們，與其拼命地想要控製一切，不如學會與不確定性共處，甚至從中發現新的機會。我非常期待它能提供一些顛覆性的觀點，讓我們重新審視那些我們一直以來認為的“問題”，從而以一種更開放、更具韌性的姿態去麵對生活。
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