Google 總部提供包羅萬有的的課外節目,其中一個類似 What we are reading,定期邀請新書作者,將「流行思潮的時代精神」帶到校園。不可不知,來這裡上班比考入哈佛大學難 25 倍1,員工的興趣不是泛泛之輩可以滿足。近藤麻理惠 (Marie Kondo) 年初獲邀講述新書《怦然心動的人生整理魔法》,難道絕頂聰明的 Googlers 也要學執屋?
筆者不諳書皮學,亦不敢憑空推介應用法則,正好趁機執屋。KonMarie 法則應用在一櫃為數不多的黑衣遊刃有餘。逐一篩選後,只需參考網上短片,將櫃桶內的內衣 T 恤等摺成可企立的小塊,一目了然地排好就禮成。考驗近藤法則的是我的藏書。
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一般家居書本不多,只需按自娛、參考、圖書及雜誌分類。書厚且重,卻萬勿為了方便,直接在書架上篩選。唯有全部親手從書架拿下,才能重新認識每一本書。對於舊愛,近藤女仕絕不留情。「生命中遇到的人不會全部成為好友或愛人。」已讀過的書你已經擁有,讀了一半的活該只擁有一半,若它們不再令你怦然心動,一律叮走。其它待讀的新書,懈㤧時不讀,不要妄想將來會讀。唯有嚴選仍能 spark joy 的少數,才有望再續前緣。
Being surrounded by things that SPARK JOY makes you happy.
不過,筆者藏書數千,每一本都是珍藏,和照片、禮物等有情之物一樣,難捨難離,必須留在最後,熟習了 spark joy 準則才處理。只要記著,當下的喜悅更重要,便能硬起心腸,懷著感恩和那些曾經成就今天的我的舊物分手。「生活空間只應留給我們成長 (becoming),不要讓回憶中的過去佔據。」
「保留甚麼,問心;怎樣存放,問屋。(When you are choosing what you keep, ask your heart; when you are choosing where to stroe something, ask your house)」運用 KonMarie 法則將全屋物品篩選過後,家中物品不再是負累,就可以滿心喜悅地整理收拾。近藤保證,不管家居多大,不必添置太多專業貯藏用品或過份策劃,只要順應房子的空間安排存放,就能從此告別雜物堆積的夢魘。
Laszlo Bock. Google Work Rules: Insight from Inside Google That Will Transform How You Live and Lead. 2015. Twelve. Kindle version p 6, location 89.
雜物分為 CD 影碟、護膚品、化?品、配件、證件、電器、文具、家用物資、㕑房用品和物資及其它零散小件。業餘興趣另開一類。
綜合 Talks at Goolge 短片及英文版結語 “Life truly begins after you put your house in order.” 及 "Please touch every items you have, and feel the inspiration from them."
"Unexamined life is not worth living."
From Theodor Adorno, Minima Moralia#51: “In his text, the writer sets up house… The demand that one harden oneself against self-pity implies the technical necessity to counter any slackening of intellectual tension with the utmost alertness, and to eliminate anything that has begun to encrust the work or to drift along idly, which may at an earlier stage have served, as gossip, to generate the warm atmosphere conductive to growth, but is now left behind, flat and stale. In the end, the writer is not even allowed to live in his writing.”