Acclaimed neuroscientist Daniel J. Levitin tells us how to organize our lives and cope with the demands of the modern age
Dr. Daniel J. Levitin has a PhD in Psychology, training at Stanford University Medical School and UC Berkeley. He is the author of the No. 1 bestseller This Is Your Brain On Music (Dutton, 2006), published in nineteen languages, and the bestsellers The World in Six Songs (Dutton, 2008) and The Organized Mind (Viking, 2014). Currently he is a James McGill Professor of Psychology, Behavioral Neuroscience and Music at McGill University in Montreal, Canada.
Thought-provoking and practical... Good advice based on sound
neuroscientific principles
*Sunday Times*
Sensible, practical advice ... a comprehensive account of the way
we think about organizing everything from our possessions to our
friends
*Financial Times*
[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
*Wall Street Journal*
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'*
Deservedly a bestseller... Levitin demonstrates how easily we are
bamboozled by statistical tricks in medicine, finance and safety,
making his points with pithy stories
*Independent*
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
*Washington Post*
A deep perspective on the ways the human mind works
*Stanley Prusiner, M.D. Nobel Laureate, director of the Institute
for Neurodegenerative Diseases, University of California, San
Francisco*
Levitin is about as knowledgeable a guide to neuroscience as one
might hope for
*New York Times Book Review*
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'*
Already deservedly a bestseller... The Organized Mind is from the
school of Daniel Kahneman but it earns its keep. Levitin
demonstrates how easily we are bamboozled by statistical tricks in
medicine, finance and safety, making his points with pithy
stories.
*Independent*
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