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Marie Kondo Marie Kondo?(近藤 麻理恵?Kondo Marie?)?is a Japanese?organizing consultant?and author.[1]She has written four books on organizing, which have sold more than two million copies altogether and have been translated from Japanese into languages including?Korean,?Chinese,German, and?English.[1]?In particular, her book?The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up: The Japanese Art of Decluttering and Organizing?has been published in more than 30 countries.[2]It was a best seller in Japan and in Europe, and was published in the United States in 2014.[1] She was listed as one of the worlds 100 most influential people by?Time Magazine?in 2015 Background Kondo has said that she was interested in organizing since childhood. In junior school, she ran into the classroom to tidy up bookshelves while her classmates were playing in Physical Education class. Whenever there was nomination for class roles, she did not seek to be the class representative or the pet feeder. Instead, she yearned to be the book shelf manager to continue to tidy up books. She says she experienced a breakthrough in organizing one day, I was obsessed with what I could throw away. One day, I had a kind ofnervous breakdown?and fainted. I was unconscious for two hours. When I came to, I heard a mysterious voice, like some god of tidying telling me to look at my things more closely. And I realized my mistake: I was only looking for things to throw out. What I should be doing is finding the things I want to keep. Identifying the things that make you happy: that is the work of tidying.[4] She also spent five years as an attendant maiden at a?Shinto?shrine.[4]?She is married.[5]?On her blog post on July 17, Kondo announced that she had given birth to a baby girl. KonMari method Kondos method of organizing is known as the KonMari method, and consists of gathering together everything you own and then keeping only those things which spark joy (tokimeku in Japanese, literally flutter, throb, palpitate[6]), and choosing