A Joosr Guide to… The Organized Mind by Daniel Levitin: Thinking Straight in the Age of Information Overload

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If you've been experiencing mental overload and excess stress, you aren't alone. Put into practice what highly successful people have known for years and you will reduce stress, enhance creative thinking and increase your productivity.

The Organized Mind by Daniel J. Levitin teaches us how to avoid wasting our precious intellectual power on physical and mental clutter. By organizing our mind, our time and our home we will be able to free our brain from common distractions. This will allow us to focus on the things that are really important to us, whether they be creative endeavours, other people or our work. Why waste time searching for a file, our reading glasses, that important piece of mail, or Scotch tape? Instead, organize your mind and your environment and you'll be happier, less stressed and way more productive.

You will learn:

· Why multi-tasking doesn't work

· What small steps you can take to start organizing your home

· Why sleep is an investment, not an inconvenience.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Joosr
• Release date: Jan 25, 2016
• ISBN: 9781785672224

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What’s it about?

Scientists are always looking for ways to tap the seemingly unlimited capabilities of the human brain. The development of our cognitive function has been a focus of scientific study for generations. Finding ways to encourage brain efficiency started at least 5000 years ago when our ancestors developed a writing system. They discovered they could increase their brain’s capacity for memory, as well as its inherent mental indexing system, by writing things down.

Since then, science and technology have been on constant watch for ways to make better use of our brainpower and memory, trying to make life easier and more efficient. Much headway has been made, yet a problem remains. With all of the scientific and technological advances, shouldn’t life be easier? Shouldn’t we be more organized, less likely to miss appointments, and even remember where we put our keys?

When life is disorganized, people tend to blame themselves. In reality, a large part of the problem with disordered living comes from dealing with information overload. In fact, according to Daniel J. Levitin in The Organized Mind, we’re all faced with an unprecedented amount of information in this day and age. It has been estimated that by 2011 the amount of information Americans were taking in each day amounted to five

Reviews for A Joosr Guide to… The Organized Mind by Daniel Levitin

[washicong · Rating: 3 out of 5 stars]

Not a substitute for the full book but if you are trying to decide if to read The Organized Mind by Daniel Levitin, this will give you a taste of what to expect.