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Nov 2016
26m 8s

Episode 53: Embrace the Chaos

Hidden Brain, Shankar Vedantam
About this episode
Many of us spend lots of time and energy trying to get organized. We KonMari our closets, we strive for inbox zero, we tell our kids to clean their rooms, and our politicians to clean up Washington. But Economist Tim Harford says, maybe we should embrace the chaos. His new book is Messy: The Power of Disorder to Transform Our Lives. 
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