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A review by laurafigueiredo
The Art of Discarding: How to Get Rid of Clutter and Find Joy by Nagisa Tatsumi
2.0
Advertised as "The book that inspired Marie Kondo's The Life Changing Magic of Tidying Up". Which says a lot.
Kondo's book was fine. I did not love it and I don't think it's sooooo special, but it was fine.
But this one is a bit boring to read, and although it tries to be practical it was not actually helpful for me.
The author keeps repeating "discard it, discard it ALL, discard no matter what!" and at certain point it gets annoying. I specially disliked her insistence on discarding things such as paperwork without worrying a bit (a topic which would require caution imho).
As a general rule I agree with the main idea but the exposition was poor.
Even so I found two paragraphs which made me wonder if her pupil Marie Kondo keeps loving this book so much now that she is world-famous:
"Experts in storage and organization are generally people who enjoy such things. [ยทยทยท] You character is different to theirs. So however much you try to follow their methods, you're bound to fail at some stage."
"But I think it is best not to suppose we can easily introduce a different lifestyle from a foreign country."
And I certainly agree with Nagisa Tatsumi on this.
Kondo's book was fine. I did not love it and I don't think it's sooooo special, but it was fine.
But this one is a bit boring to read, and although it tries to be practical it was not actually helpful for me.
The author keeps repeating "discard it, discard it ALL, discard no matter what!" and at certain point it gets annoying. I specially disliked her insistence on discarding things such as paperwork without worrying a bit (a topic which would require caution imho).
As a general rule I agree with the main idea but the exposition was poor.
Even so I found two paragraphs which made me wonder if her pupil Marie Kondo keeps loving this book so much now that she is world-famous:
"Experts in storage and organization are generally people who enjoy such things. [ยทยทยท] You character is different to theirs. So however much you try to follow their methods, you're bound to fail at some stage."
"But I think it is best not to suppose we can easily introduce a different lifestyle from a foreign country."
And I certainly agree with Nagisa Tatsumi on this.