I have been reading the book Messy: How to be Creative and Resilient in a Tidy-Minded World by Tim Harford over the past few weeks and have thoroughly enjoyed it. So I thought I would run a giveaway for one of you guys to win a copy of the book.
The book looks at how messiness can actually be a positive thing in our lives. Learn how disorder can actually help us to be more creative and resilient.
We all benefit from tidy organisation – up to a point. A large library needs a reference system. Global trade needs the shipping container. Scientific collaboration needs measurement units. But the forces of tidiness have marched too far. Corporate middle managers and government bureaucrats have long tended to insist that everything must have a label, a number and a logical place in a logical system. Now that they are armed with computers and serial numbers, there is little to hold this tidy-mindedness in check. It’s even spilling into our personal lives, as we corral our children into sanitised play areas or entrust our quest for love to the soulless algorithms of dating websites. Order is imposed when chaos would be more productive. Or if not chaos, then . . . messiness.
Giveaway
To be in with a chance of winning a copy of the book please enter via rafflecopter below. UK entrants only please. The giveaway will end at midnight on Sunday 26th March. The winner will then be notified via email, please respond within 30 days or a new winner will be drawn.
Good luck!
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Thanks for reading.
I’ve entered! This could be really useful for me!
Sounds a great book thank you!
Sounds like a book for me to read in my permanently untidy flat.
Creativity/individuality – all so much more important than uniformity! Can’t wait to read it.
Cool and quirky book thank you x
looks good x
What a little beauty quirky and fun too
This book sounds great – definitely putting it on my to read list!
Wonderful sounding book. Fingers crossed.
great prize – would love to lwin
This looks great, I really need a kick up the bum!
This book sounds just what I could do with
This looks so useful!
Sounds like a good book
This sounds a really good book
Looks a good book
Great prize. Thank you for running such a generous giveaway!
Here is my comment…fingers crossed
sounds like a lot of fun in a book
This sound great. I need more organising
Great prize, good luck to all!
Would love to read this, I am slowly letting go and enjoying the messy side of life rather than the neatly packaged one.
order tidyness helps to make things run better
Think this is just what I need to read right now!
Great prize – would love to win
Great giveaway 🙂
fingers crossed x
Fantastic prize, would love to win xxx