Marie Kondo runs a consulting business in Tokyo, helping people tidy their houses - or, more precisely, helping people throw out (on average) 2/3 to 3/4 of their belongings, and keep only those that bring them joy. What's left after the initial discard is much easier to keep tidy! This is far far too drastic for me, as one might expect. Still, her respect for objects, and her expectation that we ought to treat everything we own with dignity and care, is genuinely appealing. Her insistence that there are no half measures – to progress we must simply dive in and throw out everything that we don't truly love, right now, rather than carrying on gradually throwing things out for years or in fact (most likely) forever - is probably correct. On the other hand it seems very unlikely to happen. Very enjoyable read, but extreme. I'm still mulling it over.
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