The Organized Mind: Thinking Straight in the Age of Information Overload by Daniel Levitin
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 3 พ.ค. 2024
- Every status update your read on Facebook, every tweet or text message you get from a friend, is competing for resources in your brain. We are living in the age of information overload.
With today's explosion of digital information and constant connectivity, our brains are overwhelmed with distractions, notifications, and data. How can we stay focused, productive, and mentally sharp? In this video, I discuss insights from neuroscientist Daniel Levitin's book "The Organized Mind" about how to structure and organize our brains and lives in the information age.
Levitin explores groundbreaking research on attention, memory, and categorization that reveals how our brains cope with information overload. I share key ideas including why multitasking is not effective, how clutter negatively affects cognitive function, the power of creating mental "file folders", techniques to improve focus, and how smart organizational systems free up cognitive resources.
Whether you struggle with distraction, procrastination, forgetfulness, or just want to get better at deep thinking and creativity, this book provides science-based strategies and tools to become more focused and productive in work and life
And if more information was the answer, then we'd all be billionaires with perfect abs.
TIMESTAMPS:
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00:00 Intro & Book Summary Format
01:10 Storing vs Retrieving Information
01:40 Shifting the burden of organizing from our brains to the external world
03:35 Organizing Your Environment
05:44 Resetting to Default
06:11 Removing Friction from Social Interactions
06:44 Using External Devices to Regain Focus
08:06 Organizing Our Mind
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I definitely needed a book like this, my life is really all over the place rn and I'm overwhelmed with all the things i want to do and the knowledge i want to obtain. Thank you so much 👍👍
Ramtin S hey thanks! This book is worth reading indeed!
Also the fact that we need books to tell us these things is fascinating to me
could you expand?
@@robertus55 I am a person who's grown to depend on books/text to get him out of the realm of words and back into reality. This is one of those books. It's using nice words but it's not saying anything I don't know. It's used by most, myself included, as a form of procrastination. It's just words packaged a different way saying the obvious. That we wound't need anyone telling it to us, weren't we so much in the realm of words
Im sure I'll continue watching more of your content, I also bet that with your hard work and effort that your channel will tremendously grow, hopefully
starmaroad hey thank you for your words of encouragement here! I will sure continue documenting my small journey here 🧐😁
Thank you so much for the video! And a music on the background is amazing!!
Hey thank you so much for your words!! They do mean a lot
Thanks so much for this summary! I read this book before and put it on my bedside table this week hoping to organise my chaotic life - but didn't get round to reading it! Let's see if I can get started by organising my room!
Hey thanks and good to hear it! I suppose the book can act as a physical reminder as well.
thought it was an ali abdaal video from the thumbnail.
ghahaha
Same
Great Video...
There is a spirit of cross-pollination of Dave Allen, Cal Newport (even prior to the "Deep Work" mention), and Marie Kondo/Fumio Sasaki I am picking up from the summary here. Hope to check it out based on that (added to the never-ending amazon wish list in the meantime :P ). Great work Robert!
hey thanks Connor! Sometimes one needs to go back to the classics (Dave Allen) --- as I don't think I had my hands on one of his books. But yes, ideas built on ideas.
Thank you Robert
hey thanks man!
Found your video on reddit post. Good video.
LOVE YOUR VIDEOS! KEEP IT UP
Thank you very much for your kind words 🙏 🧐🌿
Wow! Such a great and helpful video!!
Thank you so much for your kind words of support!
This was really interesting, nice theme and visuals too!
thank you very much for your kind words of support! Trying to improve the production quality with each video! Aiming to do 1 book review per month!
Loved this video! Your channel is very underrated.
Osama Khan hey thank you very much. I am posting weekly videos nowadays. Maybe I will reach more people 🤔
@@robertus55 I guess that'll work, I think the algorithm prefers consistent uploads🤔
@@Osamaaaaa908 well who knows. I'll keep doing what I enjoy haha :D
@@robertus55 Exactly, that's what really matters
Nice one. Lot's of people have a challenge in organization.
Thank you! I hope you found it useful
2:40 excuse me sir cat photos aren't a waste 🤣 btw thank you!!
Gahahaha! I had to find something relatable 😁
ARE YOU GUYS ALL BOTS??!! This book has maybe 5 good ideas for you to organize your mind and he spreads them out over 300 pages of anecdotes and analogies. The author didn’t write this with the intent to help you organize your mind he wrote it with the intent to take your money
A book must be interesting to the particular reader at that particular time.
Nope the book is really interesting and helpful.. personally I don't read books but it fascinates me to read it
Great vid ! Can we have the music volume just a lil bit down? Suscribed 🙏🏼
Roger that! thank you for the feed-back!
So much organized information 👍
hey thank you! I hope you found it useful!
Quality video!=) nice one.
Thank you very much for your kind words of support!
The book should be retitled The Organizing Mind.
{ The mind is always messy and not organized.
But its unique strength is that it is always actively organizing. }
(This is not a play on words; there is a difference between Organized [ a finished product ] and Organizing [ an ongoing process ].
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"your mind is for having ideas, not for holding them"
Uh, then my RAM is bigger than my SSD ^-^
what a nice way of saying it!
A 3.5k subs youtuber with 5 mil subs content
oh hey thank you for your kind words here! I am aiming to improve my content delivery methods so that I can reach more people indeed! Very nice of you to say that again! Have a great day ahead!
So true!!
@@Elena-tz9ev hey thanks! I really appreciate your kind words here :D
tidy
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The human brain 🧠 has been largely the same for thousands of years in terms of processing capacity as hardware evolution takes a very long time.
In last 20 years, information that human brain encounters on daily basis has probably grown by 1000x or even more.
This creates hardware processing issues for the human brain and from reading articles to summaries we just want to know headlines and make a conclusion.
This hyper concluding low capacity brain is extremely easy to manipulate as it has no intention to get into details. TLDR.
Kids born in information overload generation and natural ADHD compared to generations before. Smarter and dumber in different ways than the previous generation.
Marketing books and courses need to adapt and strategies for hyper concluding brain need to be thought again.
The brain needs information fasting few hours a day to connect the dots it has collected. Collected dots are useless without connections.
thank you for sharing this!
subscribed the channel, where are my free tacos? XD
gahahah no free tacos for you xD! But thanks! Hope you found this stuff useful in some way or another!
Mann I just loved the whole video
Glad you enjoyed it!
@@robertus55 💙🎄 marry xmas