Despite all your efforts, your office is covered with multiple objects and your bedroom never looks like the Zen interiors of decorative magazines? Rather than trying - unsuccessfully - to amend your messy side, you can also see it differently. Our disorders would thus conceal many assets, if we are to believe a number of recent Anglo-Saxon publications like De la joie d'être bordélique (Mazarine, 2017), best-seller praised by the New York Times of Canadian Jennifer McCartney, or Bordélique, the power of disorder to transform your life, by the British economist Tim Harford (De Boeck Supérieur, 2017).
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Against the tide of Marie Kondo (the great Japanese priestess of tidying up, whose reality TV series is a hit on Netflix) and other interior coaches or “home organizers” who instruct us to sort out our closets, these books provide scientific studies on the 'support, that disorder also goes hand in hand with creativity. In 2013, psychologist Kathleen
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