Messy may be more productive than neat

[Redbear]

What do you folks think?

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070319/us_nm/work_dc

[alarimer]

1. Yeah! There's hope for me yet

I am really, really messy.

[asthmaticeog]

2. Wouldn't surprise me at all.

Every designer I've ever known whose work I've liked had a pigsty of an office.

And yes, I'm a designer, and yes, my office is a mess. :evilgrin:

[Lisa]

3. I'm reminded of a photo spread Biography magazine ran

.... in the fall of 2000. It showed the desks of both Gore and Bush. Gore's desk had stacks of things he was working on, plus all kinds of interesting stuff -- feathers, weird rocks, children's art. (I could have spent hours looking at all of it!) Bush's was bare except for a couple of slim spiral-bound reports and a baseball. And I guess we now know that it sums him up pretty well.

[crim son]

4. Nope. Mess paralyzes me.

Clutter, filth, dirt, "lived in" - I can't stand it.

[Redbear]

6. I'm sure it goes back to childhood

I always had a problem coloring within the lines and keeping papers in a folder in a particular order.

[crim son]

7. So true! And I was always anal about those things.

I find it s-o-o-o disturbing that none of my kids can draw a straight line, let alone color within it.

[Critters2]

5. Definitely. I have more important things to do than straighten my desk

The best organizer I ever knew had the most amazingly messy desk. We shared an office, but I was only in the office three afternoons a week, whereas he was there all 40 hours. Most days, the first thing I had to do to start my work was to take things of his off my desk, his mess had grown so. But he was brilliant as an organizer and advocate. Tireless, committed. And messy as the day is long!!