The Life Changing Magic of Tidying Up | Marie Kondo | Talks at Google

correct? MARIE KONDO: INTERPRETER: You should prioritize organizing your own items before you start thinking about someone else. MARIE KONDO: INTERPRETER: In my experience over the last 10 years of my career, I've definitely seen several clients who keep saying, oh, I tried to clean up my room, but my husband won't cooperate. My kids aren't really corporate. But if you look at the customers who say something like that, they are the ones who are not ordering correctly. MARIE KONDO: INTERPRETER: So this is true. MARIE KONDO: INTERPRETER: I know you have to organize things no matter what, so the important thing is that you organize them and place them in your space.

So separate space with other people. So you take care of your things in your space and leave other things and other spaces to other people. MARIE KONDO: INTERPRETER: And you shouldn't worry about the space allocated to other people because that's up to them. It's your business how to use them, how to organize them. MARIE KONDO: INTERPRETER: Of course, you can set some rules, like nothing should be leaked or something should be exposed, things like that. But that's the best way to do it with other people. AUDIENCE: Thank you. MARIE KONDO: Thank you. INTERPRETER: Good luck. AUDIENCE: Hello.

Thanks for coming. Since you talk here about how to initially purge the items you have, simply sorting out what to keep and what not to keep, do you also have recommendations for how to organize the items you decide to keep? Or do you leave it up to each person? INTERPRETER: MARIE KONDO: INTERPRETER: Yes, there is a clear rule. MARIE KONDO: INTERPRETER: So make sure you organize items in the same category in the same place. MARIE KONDO: INTERPRETER: I often see items of the same category here and there in people's homes. They are a bit spread out.

So my point is to put them all together in one place. MARIE KONDO: INTERPRETER: As I showed you before, organizing by category is very important. And another important thing I can definitely tell you is how to fold clothes. That's definitely a big key. AUDIENCE: Great. Thank you. MARIE KONDO: Thank you. AUDIENCE: Hello. Thank you for coming here. And thanks for taking the time to write the book. I have a friend who is a pretty serious hoarder with a lot of things. And when you ask him, do you need these things? Can you throw them away? The answer is, oh, I might need it later or I have this grand plan to use it that way.

But of course that never happens and things keep piling up. I wonder if he has worked with clients like this, what he tells them, and what the outcome is. INTERPRETER: MARIE KONDO: INTERPRETER: You're probably asking me for advice for someone who doesn't even bother to get organized. AUDIENCE: No, it's actually quite organized. You can find things. It's just a lot of stuff that... INTERPRETER: Oh, so it's not messy, but it has a lot of items. AUDIENCE: There are a lot of elements, and they are infiltrating the hallway space and so on. You can't walk around the house.

Know? INTERPRETER: MARIE KONDO: INTERPRETER: If he is my client, I don't think he is important to me whether he has too many items or not. MARIE KONDO: INTERPRETER: I think it's much, much more important to determine whether that person is happy with that number of items. MARIE KONDO: INTERPRETER: So I would probably recommend that person imagine the ideal

life

style for that person. MARIE KONDO: INTERPRETER: I think your friend needs to figure out what kind of

life

style he wants, what is the realistic life that your friend wants in order to determine how many things to keep or what to keep, what not to keep, etcetera.

And this is a very effective mindset for anyone. If you have someone like this among your family or friends around you, this is highly recommended. AUDIENCE: Okay. Thank you. MALE SPEAKER: So we have time for one more question. Those of you who were lucky enough to arrive early and purchased a book, Marie will sign you in the back afterwards. INTERPRETER: AUDIENCE: Yes. My question is related to something that, as engineers, we sometimes think too much about: how often we should execute a task. Should we run it on a? Think about it running all the time. Or should we run it in a batch?

So what do you think about the organization? What is the ideal frequency that you would recommend? Should we think that we should always be running in our minds? Oh, I just picked out a pen. It's probably not that useful anymore. So should we always be thinking about it? Or should I do it somehow... in the extreme it would be like once a year, which is what I normally do at the end of the year in December. I think okay, this is a bag for Goodwill. This is a toss bag. And that's the minimum we do, so when should we do it?

Should we do it at the end of the year? Should we do this every end of the day? Or should we be constantly thinking every time we meet and think about home or the workplace? INTERPRETER: MARIE KONDO: INTERPRETER: Well, the only answer is to do it once. MARIE KONDO: INTERPRETER: Speaking of when you should do it, my answer is right now. It can be at any time, but do it now. MARIE KONDO: INTERPRETER: Well, the reason is that it's not to organize your house, organize your living space. It's about how you want to spend the rest of your life from now on.

MARIE KONDO: INTERPRETER: I strongly recommend that you do it right now, as soon as possible. MARIE KONDO: INTERPRETER: Good luck. MALE SPEAKER: OK. Any final comments? Or anything else Marie wants to say? INTERPRETER: MARIE KONDO: INTERPRETER: I know the topic is a little disconcerting. It is very unusual, but in conclusion, I would like to tell you why. MARIE KONDO: INTERPRETER: I know that each of us has many elements. There are so many elements in our life. But discovering what elements you have now is discovering how you are going to live your life. MARIE KONDO: INTERPRETER: So my method is to tell you to examine every element of your life.

That means you examine, evaluate your lifestyle and the life you want to live from now on. MARIE KONDO: INTERPRETER: So once you discover the inspiration for every item you own, you'll probably learn the inspiration for how you want to live, how you want to work, how you want to be successful, how you want to make friends, and so on. MARIE KONDO: INTERPRETER: So discover your own point of inspiration with the articles and with your lifestyle. MARIE KONDO: INTERPRETER: Thank you for listening to the KonMari method. And please, please, touch every item you own and feel the inspiration from them.

MARIE KONDO: Thank you very much today.