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The Organized Mind

The Science of Preventing Overload, Increasing Productivity and Restoring Your Focus

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The Organized Mind

By: Daniel Levitin
Narrated by: Luke Daniels
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Penguin presents the unabridged, downloadable, audiobook edition of The Organized Mind by Daniel Levitin, read by Luke Daniels.

'Thought-provoking and practical ... Good advice based on sound neuroscientific principles' Sunday Times

In The Organized Mind, New York Times and Sunday Times bestselling author and neuroscientist Daniel Levitin offers solutions for the problems of information overload.
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Overwhelmed by demands on your time? Baffled by the sheer volume of data?
You're not alone. Even the smartest mind can't beat the organized mind - when we're unable to make sense of it all, our creativity plummets, our decision making suffers and we grow absent-minded. Nowadays, we drown under emails, forever juggle six tasks at once and try to make complex decisions ever more quickly. This is information overload.

Using a combination of academic research and examples from daily life, Daniel Levitin explains how to take back control of your life, from healthcare to online dating to raising kids, showing that the secret to success is always organization. You'll discover life-changing facts about:

- How to make the most of your brain's daily processing limit
- Why pressing Send or clicking Like are addictive
- Why daydreaming is your brain at its most productive
- What the most successful people keep in their drawer
- Why multitasking is a bad way to do nearly everything

In a world where information is power, The Organized Mind holds the key to harnessing that information and making it work for you.

 Content Creation & Social Media History & Culture Memory Improvement Personal Development Social Media Stress Management Technology & Society Time Management Human Brain

Critic Reviews

Thought-provoking and practical... Good advice based on sound neuroscientific principles

Sensible, practical advice ... a comprehensive account of the way we think about organizing everything from our possessions to our friends
[An] impressively wide-ranging and thoughtful work...The Organized Mind is an organized book, but it also rewards dipping in at any point, for there are fascinating facts and examples throughout
Dan Levitin has more insights per page than any other neuroscientist I know. The Organized Mind is smart, important, and as always, exquisitely written
Deservedly a bestseller... Levitin demonstrates how easily we are bamboozled by statistical tricks in medicine, finance and safety, making his points with pithy stories
From how not to lose your keys to how to decide when the risks of surgery are worth it, Levitin focuses on smart ways to process the constant flow of information the brain must deal with
A deep perspective on the ways the human mind works
Levitin is about as knowledgeable a guide to neuroscience as one might hope for
Dan Levitin has more insights per page than any other neuroscientist I know. The Organized Mind is smart, important, and as always, exquisitely written. (Daniel Gilbert, author of 'Stumbling on Happiness')
The Organized Mind is the perfect antidote to the effects of information overload. Loved it. (Scott Turow, New York Times bestselling author of 'Identical' and 'Innocent')
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Love this book as it gives history and present context on how our brains work plus what we need to do to stay organized.

Spot on how our brains work

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Good listen overall. About 7 hours longer than it needed to be. Take the points you like, if it feels like waffling, skip to next chapter, I don’t think you will miss much.

Warm up your skip finger

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Are you on a productivity kick and want to improve yourself? Avoid this. This is like a mish mash of various information on the topic with examples ad nauseum, as if the author needed a thicker book to enhance its importance. A productivity aficionado wouldn't mind the information in this, but would want it in half the time of this audiobook. Sure, not everyone is like me and appreciated Bill Bryson's A Short History of Nearly Everything, whereas I found it to have too much waffle. If you're familiar with that book, you should know by now whether you'll appreciate this book or not.

This is not concise. Too much verbiage.

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really loved this.audible book. ties in with david aliens getting things done. read it and get organized.

amazing the best book on organization out there.

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Very interesting and well informed book about organising your mind and the world around you.

Great book

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