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HTML:New York Times bestselling author and neuroscientist Daniel J. Levitin shifts his keen insights from your brain on music to your brain in a sea of details. The information age is drowning us with an unprecedented deluge of data. At the same time, weâ??re expected to make moreâ??and fasterâ??decisions about our lives than ever before. No wonder, then, that the average American reports frequently losing car keys or reading glasses, missing appointments, and feeling worn out by the effort required just to keep up. But somehow some people become quite accomplished at managing information flow. In The Organized Mind, Daniel J. Levitin, PhD, uses the latest brain science to demonstrate how those people excelâ??and how readers can use their methods to regain a sense of mastery over the way they organize their homes, workplaces, and time. With lively, entertaining chapters on everything from the kitchen junk drawer to health care to executive office workflow, Levitin reveals how new research into the cognitive neuroscience of attention and memory can be applied to the challenges of our daily lives. This Is Your Brain on Music showed how to better play and appreciate music through an understanding of how the brain works. The Organized Mind shows how to navigate the churning flood of information in the twenty-first century with the same neuroscientific… (more)
Disappointed with this book. Levitan is a smart guy and a good writer, but this book is a hodgepodge of brain science and psychology mixed up with tips about getting organized. The science is interesting but there didn’t seem much new or different - of course I read a lot about brain/mind stuff. And the getting-things-organized tips were mostly fairly obvious, to my mind. ( )
I'm not giving a star rating to The Organized Mind since I gave up at the top of p. 81--that's the third page of a detailed inventory of retail stores' stock and organizational principles, if you're following along. Levitin bemoans information overload all the while overloading his poor readers with unnecessary information in the form of redundancy after redundancy after redundancy, and apparently doesn't see the irony. It's hard to believe that no editor said, "Hey, Dan, your readers are smart enough to understand what you're getting at, so maybe we want to cut this bit about Ace Hardware down to a paragraph or two." I simply couldn't bring myself to read another 300 pages of repetition looking for concrete advice that I suspect is going to boil down to putting a bowl for your keys by the door. I already have a bowl for my keys. Works great.
ETA: It occurs to me that he writes like he's lecturing to undergraduates, coming up with example after example to make a fairly basic point because he has to fill 50 minutes of class time. Also, I am super grouchy.
Do you lose things? It’s not simple forgetfulness. Psychologist and behavioral neuroscientist Levitin examines the ways our brains process information and how to improve in the Information Age.
Introduction We humans have a long history of pursuing neural enhancement—ways to improve the brains that evolution gave us.
Chapter 1 One of the best students I ever had the privilege of meeting was born in communist Romania, under the repressive and brutal rule of Nicolae Ceaușescu.
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The key to change is having faith that when we get rid of the old, something or someone even more magnificent will take its place.
Business.
Psychology.
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HTML:New York Times bestselling author and neuroscientist Daniel J. Levitin shifts his keen insights from your brain on music to your brain in a sea of details. The information age is drowning us with an unprecedented deluge of data. At the same time, weâ??re expected to make moreâ??and fasterâ??decisions about our lives than ever before. No wonder, then, that the average American reports frequently losing car keys or reading glasses, missing appointments, and feeling worn out by the effort required just to keep up. But somehow some people become quite accomplished at managing information flow. In The Organized Mind, Daniel J. Levitin, PhD, uses the latest brain science to demonstrate how those people excelâ??and how readers can use their methods to regain a sense of mastery over the way they organize their homes, workplaces, and time. With lively, entertaining chapters on everything from the kitchen junk drawer to health care to executive office workflow, Levitin reveals how new research into the cognitive neuroscience of attention and memory can be applied to the challenges of our daily lives. This Is Your Brain on Music showed how to better play and appreciate music through an understanding of how the brain works. The Organized Mind shows how to navigate the churning flood of information in the twenty-first century with the same neuroscientific
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New York Times bestselling author and neuroscientist Daniel J. Levitin shifts his keen insights from your brain on music to your brain in a sea of details.
The information age is drowning us with an unprecedented deluge of data. At the same time, we’re expected to make more—and faster—decisions about our lives than ever before. No wonder, then, that the average American reports frequently losing car keys or reading glasses, missing appointments, and feeling worn out by the effort required just to keep up.
But somehow some people become quite accomplished at managing information flow. In The Organized Mind, Daniel J. Levitin, PhD, uses the latest brain science to demonstrate how those people excel—and how readers can use their methods to regain a sense of mastery over the way they organize their homes, workplaces, and time.
With lively, entertaining chapters on everything from the kitchen junk drawer to health care to executive office workflow, Levitin reveals how new research into the cognitive neuroscience of attention and memory can be applied to the challenges of our daily lives. This Is Your Brain on Music showed how to better play and appreciate music through an understanding of how the brain works. The Organized Mind shows how to navigate the churning flood of information in the twenty-first century with the same neuroscientific perspective.
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