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Daniel Levitin, The Organized Mind

Wednesday, September 16, 2015 - 7:00pm

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.

Yet somehow certain 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. Like 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 illustrates how to navigate the information age with the same neuroscientific perspective.

Daniel J. Levitin is a neuroscientist, musician, and record producer who is an Assistant Professor of Psychology at McGill University, where he holds the Bell Chair in the Psychology of Electronic Communication and the FQRT Strategic Professor Chair in Psychology. His book This Is Your Brain on Music was praised by the likes of Oliver Sacks and David Byrne, and spent over one year on the New York Times Bestseller list.

Author photo by Arsenio Coroa.

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$20.00
ISBN: 9780147516312
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Published: Dutton - September 1st, 2015