Here’s something that will come as no surprise to any sentient human being. Your brain has not caught up with the demands of the modern world.
“Information Overload.” Has there ever been a more apt phrase to describe how we’re living our lives these days?
We are under constant assault. Anybody who finds the time to look around (no sure thing these days) needs little or no elaboration on the matter. It’s all very well documented, likely in a million and one electronic locations.
So what do we do?
Daniel Levitin has some answers and has just published a book on the subject, “The Organized Mind: Thinking straight in the Age of Information Overload.”
You may have heard of Mr. Levitin, a very busy and very eclectic fellow.
He has already published two best-sellers, “This Is Your Brain on Music” and “he World in Six Songs.”
He is a former professional musician and record producer. He is currently a professor of psychology and behaviour neuroscience at Montreal’s McGill University, where he also teaches music theory, computer science and education and is the director of the Laboratory for Music Perception, Cognition and Expertise.
Wait, there’s more. Mr. Levitin is also the Dean of Arts and Humanities at The Minerva Schools at Keck Graduate Institute in Claremont, California.
Oh yeah. Something else. Sometimes he works as a stand-up comic and joke writer.
Mr. Levitin is currently on a book tour of the United States and joined RCI by phone from Chicago.
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