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If the mess on the desk is a mess in my head, then what is an empty table? Albert Einstein

Steve Jobs, Albert Einstein and Mark Twain. What is common, in addition to the genius of these people?

Desktop clutter!

They do not when you do not coasted on the mainstream, rather, created it themselves. They did everything in their own way. But how can you work when on the table a pile of papers and a pile of other things?

We learn from this article.

Disorder and Creativity

Some time ago we told you about the research scientists at Princeton University who provedThat the disorder can impair concentration and, consequently, productivity.

The influence of the environment on the performance and researchers interested in the University of Minnesota. The results of their scientific research are: Cluttered desktop promotes creative thinking, it helps to think outside the box, while perfect order, indeed, brings thoughts in order (pardon the tautology), helps to focus on.

To draw such conclusions scientists has allowed a number of experiments. In one of the test subjects were seated at tidy up tables:

And another part of the table filled with all sorts of rubbish.

And those and others were asked to fill out questionnaires. It turned out that the people who wrote for a clean desk, as a rule, are more inclined to charity, a healthy diet and do the "right" life.

Purity requires people to appropriate behavior. Kathleen Vos (Kathleen Vohs), head of research

In another experiment, subjects were asked to think of the use of non-standard ball ping-pong. People in creative disarray, was born more ideas.

Mess around stimulates creativity. And it is of great importance for the development of culture and art.

From childhood, we are taught: clean toys for themselves, not to scatter things, veiled bed. But, according to the findings of scientists, accustoming children to the purity of the parents, thus "blunt" their creative flair.

However, the habit of disorder can make you an outcast in society. Meet on clothes, so when colleagues see the trash on your desktop, they think: "What a slut for sure, and for work applies as well!".

However, people who truly love their business, can not noticing oblique views, arrange Destry.

Alexander Fleming and other great "Dirt"

Sir Alexander Fleming - British bacteriologist who discovered lysozyme and highlight the world's first antibiotic - penicillin.

Colleagues often laughed at Fleming: scientist, laboratory features a leg break.

Fleming kept them isolated cultures of microorganisms for two or three weeks, and before than to destroy, their carefully studied to check if there was not any chance of some unexpected and interesting phenomenon. Further history revealed that, if he was as accurate as I, he likely would not have discovered anything new.

This is an excerpt from the memoirs of one of the laboratory staff scientist. Surprisingly, it was a mess helped Fleming make 2 important discoveries.

In 1922, Sir Fleming cold. Tormented by cold, he has brought in a petri dish nasal mucus. In that part of the cup, where she was, colonies of bacteria were killed. Fleming began to investigate this phenomenon.

It was found that the same effect on a solution with a variety of bacteria have tears, saliva, particles of living tissue. So Fleming discovered lysozyme - an antibacterial enzyme produced by the human body.

Penicillin has also helped highlight the case and... the mess in the lab. In 1928, a colleague in the office looked into a scientist. Fleming just went through moldy petri dishes with the old cultures.

"As soon as you open the culture dish, you expect trouble: always something gets out of the air ..." - complained Fleming colleague. And then suddenly he stopped and thought ...

In one of moldy petri dishes all bacteria are killed. This marked the beginning of research flemingovskim mold, culminating in the discovery of penicillin.

About another great scientist, for whom the disorder is part of the creative environment already Layfhaker I told. It's about "mad scientist of Bletchley Park," Alan Turing.

It is also known that chaos reigned in the workplace English expressionist painter Francis Bacon and the American writer Mark Twain.

Here are a few recent examples:

1. Mark Zuckerberg - the programmer, the founder and head of the social networking site Facebook.
2. Tony Hsieh - entrepreneur, CEO of online clothing shop, footwear and accessories Zappos.com.
3. Max Levchin - Web developer and programmer, one of the founders of PayPal.
4. Dennis Crowley - founder of Foursquare.

And what is happening on your desktop? ;)