A Messy Desk Is a Sign of Genius, According to Science. Mark Twain, Thomas Edison, Albert Einstein, and Steve Jobs had messy desks, just like most other geniuses.

Yet from this muddle arose perhaps the greatest intellectual, not to mention creative, feats of the 20th century. The confusion of Einstein’s office did not prevent him discovering previously ...

Is your desk overflowing with scraps of paper, coffee cups, envelopes and wilted plants? Well, far from being idle, it turns out you might just be a creative genius.