11 quotes
An organized mind leads effortlessly to good decision-making.
The Organized Mind (2014)
Fondness for stories is just one of many artifacts, side effects of the way our brains work.
The Organized Mind (2014)
By now, those children would have grown into positions of influence, and they would be grateful to us instead of hating us.
The Organized Mind (2014)
Prior to the invention of writing, our ancestors had to rely on memory, sketches, or music to encode and preserve important information.
The Organized Mind (2014)
The most fundamental principle of the organized mind, the one most critical to keeping us from forgetting or losing things, is to shift the burden of organizing from our brains to the external world.
The Organized Mind (2014)
The information age has off-loaded a great deal of work previously done by people we could call information specialists onto all of the rest of us.
The Organized Mind (2014)
You’d think people would realize they’re bad at multitasking and would quit. But a cognitive illusion sets in, fueled in part by a dopamine-adrenaline feedback loop, in which multitaskers think they are doing great.
The Organized Mind (2014)
Memory is fallible... not because of storage limitations so much as retrieval limitations.
The Organized Mind (2014)
Evolution doesn't design things... The brain is... like a big, old house with piecemeal renovations done on every floor, and less like new construction.
The Organized Mind (2014)
It's not just that we remember things wrongly, but we don't even know we're remembering them wrongly, doggedly insisting that the inaccuracies are in fact true.
The Organized Mind (2014)
Recent research in social psychology has shown that happy people are not people who have more; rather, they are people who are happy with what they already have. Happy people engage in satisficing all of the time, even if they don’t know it.
The Organized Mind (2014)