In 2014, Marie Kondo, the Japanese organizational guru, rose to stardom with her No. 1 New York Times Bestseller, “The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up.” This subsequently launched her Netflix career, and she became a household name and initiated a nationwide frenzy of tidying up America. Her catchy method of cleaning up cluttered homes is connected to a feeling that is all too often overlooked: joy.
Kondo advises you to pick up each item and ask yourself if it sparks joy; if not, get rid of it. But what about things we can’t pick up?
Technology has taken the world by storm and is creating more clutter in our lives than we realize, even if that clutter doesn’t fill the corners of your closet. It clutters something more important than that—our mind and our emotions—and makes a mess of our attention, and more importantly, gets in the way of spending time with the people we love most.
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