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What tidy people can learn from messy people – and how the two can live together
Chaos is not inherently creative, just as tidiness isn’t inherently virtuous
6 March 2021 • 6:00am
You shouldn’t be judged for being messy but it shouldn’t be synonymous with dirty
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When Jean-Paul Sartre wrote, “Hell is other people,” he may have been writing about the terror of constantly being watched, examined and judged by others. He might also have been reflecting on the torture of living with someone who never wipes up the crumbs after making toast, or the agony of living with someone who insists that you do. Endlessly.
Many of us have picked up all manner of extraordinary habits in the past year growing new spring onions from trimmed ones, fermenting anything and everything, baking banana bread, whether we like it or not (I’m very much in the ‘or not’ camp).
But as a lover of fresh flowers, the trend that surprises me most is the seemingly unstoppable rise of dried blooms, with sales up 115 per cent during our various lockdowns.
At 55, I think I am both too young and too old for this trend.
Sure, in 1978, my Christmas money hot in my hand, I raced to Dressers department store in Darlington to buy Edith Holden’s Country Diary Of An Edwardian Lady. I even had a flower press.
The reasons why we are optimistic about 2021
After a year to forget, 40 well-known figures tell us why they’re feeling positive about the future
Brighter days will follow
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Is there too much negativity in the world? If there is, it’s probably our fault – the media, that is. Famously in the hard-hearted world of journalism, “if it bleeds it leads,” and our tendency to highlight bad news may have made an objectively terrible year seem even worse.
Scary headlines hold our attention because of negativity bias – the human desire not only to seek out bad news but to give it more credence. It’s why people remain scared of plane crashes when 99.99997 per cent of commercial flights land safely, and why the majority of people think extreme poverty is rising when it’s falling fast. (In one survey, only one per cent of respondents knew that it had decreased by half in 20 years. The rest were too pessimistic.)
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