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Daniel J. Levitin • The Organized Mind: Thinking Straight in the Age of Information Overload
Successful Aging: A Neuroscientist Explores the Power and Potential of Our Lives
Our brains evolved to focus on one thing at a time.
Daniel J. Levitin • The Organized Mind: Thinking Straight in the Age of Information Overload
This ability to recognize diversity and organize it into categories is a biological reality that is absolutely essential to the organized human mind.
Daniel J. Levitin • The Organized Mind: Thinking Straight in the Age of Information Overload
The human brain has evolved to hide from us those things we are not paying attention
Daniel J. Levitin • The Organized Mind: Thinking Straight in the Age of Information Overload
But for virtually all of us, music has great power, whether or not we seek it out or think of ourselves as particularly “musical.”
Oliver Sacks • Musicophilia
The secret is to put systems in place to trick ourselves—to trick our brains—into staying on task when we need them
Daniel J. Levitin • The Organized Mind: Thinking Straight in the Age of Information Overload
“I cannot say exactly how nature exerts its calming and organizing effects on our brains,” the poetic neurologist Oliver Sacks wrote in the dawning years of the twenty-first century, “but I have seen in my patients the restorative and healing powers of nature and gardens, even for those who are deeply disabled neurologically.”