Rhetorical Analysis Of Less Is More By Graham Hill

Less Is More Graham Hill brought up the idea “Less stuff, more happiness” at a TED talk in Oct 2011. During his speech he tried to convince knowledgeable people, that having less stuff, equals more. He used the example of moving a box of items that we don’t need or use from place to place just because we think we need more. When in fact we need less in our lives. Having less equals more because we can concentrate on more important things to spend our money and time on. He explained that when he had less stuff was much happier. Americans have about 3x the space we had 50 years ago that sounds like we should have plenty of room to store all the things that we have to day.
Hill suggested to the audience that we have all experienced more happiness with less. In a hotel room or camping in a tent with much less gave us more freedom, more time, saved us money which equals more joy. If we had less stuff we would not see a personal storage unit industry growing, into a 22 billion dollar industry around every corner.
His reason for doing this was to figure out some new solutions for maximizing the uses of small spaces. He had a 420 sq ft apartment in Manhattan that he wanted to get the most he uses out of the space he had. He wanted a home office, enough space for a sit down dinner for 10, a room for gusts, and enough space to store all of his kite surfing gear. He got his very own little jewel box after receiving over 300 entries or ideas from all over the world. Hills final design was created specifically for his favorite possessions. This space is exciting to be in for Hill not only because it’s his favorite stuff but he also saved about $200,000 from