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A personal journey of three years that was started by Marie Kondo's book, the life changing magic of tidying up. First ripple effect: reading The life changing magic of not givinf a f**k by Sarah Knight.

The life changing magic of tidying up  It all started with Marie Kondo’s book, 'the life-changing magic of tidying up', in January 2015. I am not even sure any more how i came across the book. Probably searching for ideas on Pinterest, or maybe it was a recommendation by Amazon - recommendation algorithms these days are sometimes so good that it’s freaky.  What I remember however is, that I was facing a difficult career decision at the time. I was about to turn 34, working for a multinational company as a application manager. I quite liked my job but we were...