“I actually executed all the tidying up.”
Her desire for cleanliness, however, started to become an unhealthy obsession at age 16.
“I looked at my room, and felt that I wanted to throw out everything in it.
That was the climax of my stress, and at that moment I collapsed unconscious.”
In college, she wrote a sociology thesis called, “How to Declutter Your Apartment.”
Kondo went on to become a consultant.
The book would later become aNew York Timesbest-seller and skyrocketed her career to the success she has now.
