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Book

The organized mind : thinking straight in the age of information overload

Call Number

  • 153.42 L6664 (CEN)

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Publication Information

New York, New York : Dutton, [2014]

Physical Description

xxvi, 496 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Summary

Daniel J. Levitin, Ph.D., uses the latest brain science to demonstrate how people with "organized" minds excel--and how readers can use their methods to regain a sense of mastery over the way they organize their homes, workplaces, and lives.

Contents

  • Information and conscientious organization
  • Too much information, too many decisions : the inside history of cognitive overload ; The first things to get straight : how attention and memory work
  • Organizing our homes : where things can start to get better ; Organizing our social world : how humans connect now ; Organizing our time : what is the mystery? ; Organizing information for the hardest decisions : when life is on the line ; Organizing the business world : how we create value
  • What to teach our children : the future of the organized mind ; Everything else : the power of the junk drawer
  • Appendix. Constructing your own fourfold tables.

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