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Music has got to be useful for survival, or we would have gotten rid of it years ago.

~Daniel Levitin

Topics: Got Gotten Music Rid Survival Useful Would Years Years Ago

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We've always known that music is good for improving your mood.

~Daniel Levitin

Topics: Always Good Improving Known Mood Music Your

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I've always been interested in peak performance, why some people do better in life than others.

~Daniel Levitin

Topics: Always Been Better Interested Life Others Peak People Performance Some Some People Than Why

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We need to blinker ourselves, to better monitor our attentional focus. Enforced periods of no email or Internet to allow us to sustain concentration have been shown to be tremendously helpful. And breaks - even a 15-minute break every two or three hours - make us more productive in the long run.

~Daniel Levitin

Topics: Allow Been Better Break Breaks Concentration Email Enforced Even Every Focus Helpful Hours Internet Long Long Run Make Monitor More Need Our Ourselves Periods Productive Run Shown Sustain Three Tremendously Two Us

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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

Topics: Anything Brain Door Front Front Door Get Heads Hooks Information Key Lists Note Our Out Pads Physical Physical World World

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If you hear on the weather report that it's going to rain tomorrow, rather than reminding yourself to bring your umbrella, set the umbrella by the front door - now the environment is reminding you to bring the umbrella.

~Daniel Levitin

Topics: Bring Door Environment Front Front Door Going Hear Now Rain Rather Reminding Report Set Than Tomorrow Umbrella Weather You Your Yourself

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You're entitled your own opinions, but you're not entitled to your own facts.

~Daniel Levitin

Topics: Entitled Facts Opinions Own You Your

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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

Topics: Able Brain Brains Even Foggy Good Happens Judge Leads Our Release Self-Delusion Stress Thinking Very Well Whether Which Working You

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Of the thousands of ways that humans differ from one another, turns out there's this one cluster of traits called conscientiousness that predict a whole host of positive life outcomes, such as longevity over our health, life satisfaction.

~Daniel Levitin

Topics: Another Cluster Differ Health Host Humans Life Longevity Our Out Outcomes Over Positive Predict Satisfaction Thousands Traits Turns Ways Whole

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Information overload refers to the notion that we're trying to take in more than the brain can handle.

~Daniel Levitin

Topics: Brain Handle Information More Notion Overload Take Than Trying

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Scientist

Born: December 27th, 1957

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