If she can’t make tidying work with three kids around, when it’s her brand, her identity and her life’s work, the rest of us are just fine. Would I let bits actually fall off my house, so that it was a colourful riot of buckets catching leaks? What do you do with a book that you feel you should read but know you’re never going to? This is what Kondo has finally realised: that every minute decision contains an opportunity cost, the opportunity being to chill the hell out. If she hadn’t already had this epiphany when we met, I’d like to think I maybe rubbed off on her a little bit.

Source: The Guardian January 31, 2023 18:54 UTC