Tim Harford explores the benefits of having messiness in our lives: why it’s important, why we resist it and why we should embrace it instead. Using research from neuroscience, psychology and social science, he explains that the human qualities we value – creativity, responsiveness, resilience – are integral to the disorder, confusion and disarray that produce them. Messiness lies at the core of how we innovate, how we achieve, how we reach each other – in short, how we succeed. In association with UWE Bristol.