Truemors
My desk is messy. Very messy, some would say. It's how I work best. Papers, pens, straws, soya sauce packets all find their natural resting place. When I came across this dandy of an article, I couldn't resist the urge to share pics of my desk.
the gaming blog Kotaku did a neat feature in which workspaces of gaming biz / blogging biz / news biz folks are displayed, with little descriptions about the person behind them.
I am not embarrassed of the mess, in fact the opposite. I wear my mess as a badge of honour. A testament to hardwork and creativity.
But contrarian voices can be heard in the wilderness. An anti-anticlutter movement is afoot, one that says yes to mess and urges you to embrace your disorder. Studies are piling up that show that messy desks are the vivid signatures of people with creative, limber minds (who reap higher salaries than those with neat “office landscapes”) and that messy closet owners are probably better parents and nicer and cooler than their tidier counterparts. It’s a movement that confirms what you have known, deep down, all along: really neat people are not avatars of the good life; they are humorless and inflexible prigs, and have way too much time on their hands.
And of course, there's a self congratulatory aspect to it. Yay, I'm messy!
The best part about the messy desk myth is that it allows many of us to proudly view ourselves as creative geniuses just waiting to be discovered. And since there are many of us in each generation, new articles and books on the subject are continually being written.
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