Abstract of the book. The Organized Mind: Thinking Straight in the Age of Information Overload - читать бесплатно онлайн полную версию книги автора Daniel Levitin (Final summary) #12

Final summary

The key message in this book:

We live in an age of information overload. This presents a challenge for our brains, which are wired to manage information by focusing attention on one thing at a time. By learning about the way our brain distinguishes, focuses and categorizes, we can better organize our own lives.

Actionable advice:

Increase productivity by increasing your sleeping hours, not your working hours.

Studies have demonstrated the way in which sleep improves your brain’s ability to solve complex problems. The expression “sleep on it” has real biological significance, and an awareness of this will allow us to be more effective at work. So next time you’ve got a large task, don’t sacrifice your sleep to work on it – you’ll be much more effective when you allow your brain to refuel and continue work in the morning.

Suggested further reading: Make it Stick by Peter C. Brown

Make It Stick is a critical update on our way of thinking about learning and memory. Taking the traditional ways of learning to task for being ineffective, and even counterproductive, the book uses recent scientific findings to suggest how we can learn more effectively and improve our memories along the way.