The Organized Mind: Thinking Straight in the Age of Information Overload

Very good book, my wife was very happy.

researches all the facts and writes for the layman with some for the professional but explained. I've recently lost my husband, moved to a new area, finding memory for new names and all the etcs not good but I wanted to know the reason - successful!

Book arrived “used” paperback is folded and inside as well. Outside is dirty with scratches.

If you are expecting a sort of guide book that will already confirm what you already believe you should do in order to spend more time offline, then this book is not for you. HOWEVER, if you are interested in how the brain works, how attention works, how much switching between tasks costs, how the states of mind wandering and focus work and many other similar things, this book is definitely for you. You will learn a lot about the brain, mind illusions and the like. It's been a real entertaining and interesting book. What I found funny was the author mentioning a professor and his friend who both have written a book I've read. I found this book better than his professor's, though. *Spoiler alert* What I also found very interesting was learning that people used to consider writing and later books a bad idea because it enabled everyone to write them and there would be a too large amount of books for one to read. Some also claimed writing could be falsified and that it were better for someone to get information directly from the horse's mouth.

Explains in detail the brain functioning and its impact on your capacity of dealing with information (mountains of ...), decision-making and other aspects of your private and professional lifes. To basic aspects like prevention of data loss (hard-disk breakdown). The books deals with topics like - how to organize your home/kitchen/garage, - how to evaluate data for taking relevant (business or health) decisions, how to handle statistics and what they mean (e.g. correlation and deduction are not the same!), - what to learn our children, in the age when information is available everywhere. - how to motive your collaborates at work (e.g. why multitasking is non-sense, what happens then in your brain). The author arguments with neurosciences studies, daily life experiences and lessons learned from highly efficient executives (or executive assistants) in world known sucessfull companies. Each reader can learn something in this book, and implement some recipes in his/her life to make it more efficient and do not loss time with burdening and time-demanding aspects. A great read, I recommand!