If your desk at work is messy – relax...

Cluttered or messy desks at work aren't all bad...

That disaster area could actually prompt you to focus more, think creatively and simplify the tasks at hand. Researcher Jia Liu says many great thinkers preferred to work at messy desks, including Abraham Lincoln and Sigmund Freud. 

Here’s what Albert Einstein had to say about his messy desk: “If a cluttered desk is a sign of a cluttered mind, then what are we to think of an empty desk?”