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I think of the brain as a computational device: It has a bunch of little components that perform calculations on some small aspect of the problem, and another part of the brain has to stitch it all together, like a tapestry or a quilt.
- Daniel Levitin
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#Together
The human brain long ago evolved a mechanism for rewarding us when we encountered new information: a little shot of dopamine in the brain each time we learned something new. Across evolutionary history, compulsively seeking information was adaptive behavior.
- Daniel Levitin
#Brain
#History
#Information
#Long
#Time
One of the most important tools in critical thinking about numbers is to grant yourself permission to generate wrong answers to mathematical problems you encounter. Deliberately wrong answers!
- Daniel Levitin
#Numbers
#Problems
#Thinking
#Yourself
Brain extenders are anything that get information out of our heads and into the physical world: calendars, key hooks by the front door, note pads, 'to do' lists.
- Daniel Levitin
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#Door
#Information
#Key
#World
Approximating involves making a series of educated guesses systematically by partitioning the problem into manageable chunks, identifying assumptions, and then using your general knowledge of the world to fill in the blanks.
- Daniel Levitin
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#Educated
#Knowledge
#World
Even though we think we're getting a lot done, ironically, multitasking makes us demonstrably less efficient.
- Daniel Levitin
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#Less
#Multitasking
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#Us
Healthy breaks can hit the reset button in your brain, restoring some of the glucose and other metabolic nutrients used up with deep thought. A healthy break is one in which you allow your brain to rest, to loosen its grip on your thoughts.
- Daniel Levitin
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#Deep
#Rest
#Thoughts
#Up
Music can be thought of as a type of perceptual illusion in which our brain imposes structure and order on a sequence of sounds. Just how this structure leads us to experience emotional reactions is part of the mystery of music.
- Daniel Levitin
#Brain
#Experience
#Illusion
#Music
#Us
Our brains are very, very good at self-delusion. What happens is, it releases the stress hormone cortisol in the brain, which leads to foggy thinking, so you're not even able to judge well whether you're working well or not.
- Daniel Levitin
#Brain
#Good
#Judge
#Stress
#Thinking
The conscious mind can only pay attention to about four things at once. If you've got these nagging voices in your head telling you to remember to pick up the laundry and call so-and-so, they're competing in your brain for neural resources with the stuff you're actually trying to do, like getting your work done.
- Daniel Levitin
#Attention
#Brain
#Mind
#Remember
#Work
Across a range of inferences involving not just language but mathematics, logic problems, and spatial reasoning, sleep has been shown to enhance the formation and understanding of abstract relations, so much so that people often wake having solved a problem that was unsolvable the night before.
- Daniel Levitin
#Mathematics
#Night
#Problems
#Sleep
You're entitled your own opinions, but you're not entitled to your own facts.
- Daniel Levitin
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#Facts
#Opinions
#Own
#Your
Through studies of music and the brain, we've learned to map out specific areas involved in emotion, timing, and perception - and production of sequences. They've told us how the brain deals with patterns and how it completes them when there's misinformation.
- Daniel Levitin
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#Map
#Music
#Perception
#Timing
Multitasking creates a dopamine-addiction feedback loop, effectively rewarding the brain for losing focus and for constantly searching for external stimulation.
- Daniel Levitin
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#Feedback
#Focus
#Loop
#Losing
Critical thinking is not something you do once with an issue and then drop it. It requires that we update our knowledge as new information comes in. Time spent evaluating claims is not just time well spent. It should be considered part of an implicit bargain we've all made.
- Daniel Levitin
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#Knowledge
#Thinking
#Time
The obvious rule of efficiency is you don't want to spend more time organizing than it's worth.
- Daniel Levitin
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#More
#Time
#Want
#Worth
Lies are an absence of facts and, in many cases, a direct contradiction of them.
- Daniel Levitin
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#Contradiction
#Facts
#Lies
There's an ancient connection between movement and music. Most languages don't make a distinction between the words 'music' and 'dance.' And we can see that in the brain. When people are lying perfectly still but listening to music, the neurons in the motor cortex are firing.
- Daniel Levitin
#Brain
#Connection
#Listening
#Music
#See
When you're at work, be fully at work. And let your leisure time be what it's meant to be - restorative and fun.
- Daniel Levitin
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#Leisure
#Meant To Be
#Time
#Work
Our ancient forebears who learned to synchronize the movements of dance were those with the capacity to predict what others around them were going to do and signal to others what they wanted to do next. These forms of communication may well have helped lead to the formation of larger human communities.
- Daniel Levitin
#Communication
#Dance
#Human
#Predict
The phrase 'fake news' sounds too playful, too much like a schoolchild faking illness to get out of a test.
- Daniel Levitin
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#Fake
#News
#Test
#Too Much
Our species uses music and dance to express various feelings: love, joy, comfort, ceremony, knowledge, and friendship. And each one is distinct and widely recognized within cultures. Love songs cause us to move slowly and fluidly, for example, while songs of joy inspire us to dance in a full-body aerobic way.
- Daniel Levitin
#Friendship
#Joy
#Knowledge
#Love
#Music
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