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The Organized Mind: Thinking Straight In The Age Of Information Overload (2014)

by Daniel J. Levitin(Favorite Author)

3.72 of 5 Votes: 1

ISBN

052595418X (ISBN13: 9780525954187)

languge

English

genre

Nonfiction

publisher

Dutton Adult

review 1: This was really interesting and I learned from it, but at times it was difficult to read because there was just so much information to process. This is not a book to read while a television is playing in the background because you really need to concentrate when you read this. One review of the book that I read seemed to belittle some of the suggestions in the book such as designating a place for your keys so you don't lose them or the importance of a junk drawer, but those ideas are not intuitively obvious to everyone, otherwise keys would not be lost! If I were to read this book again, I would give myself more time and not do it during the weeks before Christmas.
review 2: I wanted some helpful hints, but I felt overwhelmed by the amount of information in ... morethis book which kept reminding me that there is an overwhelming amount of information in the world right now, too much for us to process. For example, the author claims that in 2011, Americans took in five times as much information every day as they did in 1986---the equivalent of 175 newspapers. During our leisure time (just leisure!) we each process 100,000 words every day. The world has 21,274 television stations which produce 85,000 hours of original programming every day and we watch an average of 5 hours of t.v. each day. It's too much to manage, and we all know there is more coming every day. So his message is a good one, which is essentially to prioritize and learn to ignore a lot. But his message itself is a prime example of information overload and it would have been better if he had streamlined it. less

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