The information age is drowning us with an exceptional deluge of data.
Organization Principle #1: Conquer information overload To do this, Levitin says, we must organize our personal environments to better channel our brains’ unique approach to doing things.Īccording to The Organized Mind, the trick to efficiently organize and manage information is to “shift the burden of organizing from our brains to the external world.” Levitin uses the latest brain science to propose “organization principles”-methods and disciplines to regain a sense of mastery over the way we can organize our time, home, and office. To be efficacious, we not only need to limit the information we consume (by simplifying, limiting our sources, quitting social media, taking digital Sabbaths, etc.) but also need to develop systems to take the strain off our befuddled brains. The human brain is incredible at storing data the challenge is summoning up the right stuff at the right time, while not being distracted by the rest. And there isn't really anybody doing it for us.In the best-selling The Organized Mind: Thinking Straight in the Age of Information Overload, neuroscientist Daniel Levitin argues that the problem with the proliferation of information isn’t as much about the storage of the information as it is about organizing and retrieving that information. I think a lot of us feel overloaded by the process.Īnd, as you say, it's getting harder and harder to know, when you find things on the Internet, what you can believe and what you can't. Your starting point, we're bombarded with information, but it's harder than ever to know what's true.ĭANIEL LEVITIN, Author, "A Field Guide to Lies: Critical Thinking in the Information Age": We're making more and more decisions every day. Our guide is Daniel Levitin, a neuroscientist and bestselling author of books, including "This Is Your Brain on Music" and "The Organized Mind." The Twain quote appears at the beginning of a new book titled "A Field Guide to Lies: Critical Thinking in the Information Age."
It's what you know for sure that just ain't so." Mark Twain said that.Īnd imagine what he would make of the Internet, when everything is available and we're sure we know so much. "It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble.
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