Discovery of LESS: How I Found Everything I Wanted Underneath Everything I Owned

by Chris Lovett

•54 per cent of Americans are overwhelmed by the amount of clutter they have, but 78 per cent of

those have no idea what to do with it.

What’s the password again for the travel email?” “Travel, four, as in number four, reals yo, reals is with a z instead of an s, all one word, exclamation mark, question mark, 2017… 18.”

Fun fact, apparently, this momentary lapse in memory is called the “Doorway Effect” and psychologists believe that passing through a doorway or entering another room creates a mental block in the brain, which means that it resets the memory to make room for the creation of a new episode.

Busyness syndrome, I think, or boondoggling, doing low-value work to look busy.

“Employees ranked meaningless tasks as their number one factor from keeping them feeling fulfilled at work. The vast majority of an employee’s day (60 per cent) is wasted on excessive emails, unproductive meetings and a lack of standard process and collaboration.