At the crossroads of Creativity & Clutter

An article on the APA site, A messy desk encourages a creative mind, study finds, written in 2013, describes an experiment in which people were divided by whether they worked on a tidy desk or one — well, like mine, pictured above. They were then offered snacks, either an apple or other healthy snack or a candy bar. The messy deskers took the candy and the tidy folks took the apple.