Whether you have a Jane Austen or Bill Gates type ordered desk or a Steve Jobs or Albert Einstein messy desk, might explain the way you think and work.
Already a subscriber?Jane Austen needed just a small walnut tripod table adorned with nothing but a quill and a pot of ink to write about the trials and tribulations of the Bennets, while Mark Twain conjured the adventures of Huckleberry Finn from a desk buried in a sea of paper.
Author Jane Austen’s mahogany portable writing desk is thought to have been bought for her by her father, the Rev George Austen, in December 1794.A messy office, he said, is proof that “we don’t care enough to keep things shipshape”.h, where people hammer away at their keyboards in close quarters and one deskmate’s idea of artful piles could be another’s idea of anxiety-inducing disarray.
Vindication for the winner of this newspaper’s messiest desk award who, incidentally, deems people with very tidy desks as “neurotic”. “Like people who obsessively make spreadsheets and tick things off lists and disinfect everything.” It points to a study from the Princeton University Neuroscience Institute which showed our brains “like order”. “Constant visual reminders of disorganisation drain our cognitive resources and reduce our ability to focus.”
Mess makes her feel “anxious”. An untidy desk “just makes a stressful day feel even more chaotic”. Having half a tidy desk, then, is just enough to calm her busy mind.
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