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Yes, there were piano bands and great rock pianists, from Jerry Lee Lewis and Little Richard to Keith Emerson, Rick Wakeman, and Elton John. But something about the electric guitar speaks of more than music - it epitomizes and gives voice to the rebellion, power, and sexuality of rock.

~Daniel Levitin

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We used to think that you could pay attention to five to nine things at a time. We now know that's not true. That's a crazy overestimate. The conscious mind can attend to about three things at once. Trying to juggle any more than that, and you're going to lose some brainpower.

~Daniel Levitin

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Having learned something, we tend to cling to that belief, even in the face of overwhelming evidence to the contrary. New information comes in all time, and the thing we ought to be thinking about doing is changing our beliefs as that new information comes in.

~Daniel Levitin

Topics: About Belief Beliefs Changing Cling Contrary Doing Even Evidence Face Having Information Learned New Ought Our Overwhelming Something Tend Thing Thinking Time

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I'm a simple country neuroscientist, not an expert on democracy, but I do know something about how the brain works and how opinion-reinforcing bubbles can distort the picture of reality we build from the information we encounter on a daily basis.

~Daniel Levitin

Topics: About Basis Brain Bubbles Build Country Daily Daily Basis Democracy Distort Encounter Expert How Information Know Picture Reality Simple Something Works

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Anything you care about, from vacation plans to exercise to the best Ethiopian restaurant, is going to be guided by your individual search history.

~Daniel Levitin

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The history of science and culture is filled with stories of how many of the greatest scientific and artistic discoveries occurred while the creator was not thinking about what he was working on, not consciously anyway - the daydreaming mode solved the problem for him, and the answer appeared suddenly as a stroke of insight.

~Daniel Levitin

Topics: About Answer Anyway Appeared Artistic Creator Culture Daydreaming Discoveries Filled Greatest He Him History How Insight Many Mode Occurred Problem Science Scientific Solved Stories Stroke Suddenly The History Of Thinking While Working

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Life it is not just a series of calculations and a sum total of statistics, it's about experience, it's about participation, it is something more complex and more interesting than what is obvious.

~Daniel Libeskind

Topics: About Calculations Complex Experience Interesting Just Life More Obvious Participation Series Something Statistics Sum Sum Total Than Total

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It's about how to bring together the seemingly contradictory aspects of the memorial, which is about a tragedy and how it changed the world, but also about creating a vital and beautiful city of the 21st century.

~Daniel Libeskind

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One of the magical things about kindness is that it's what we nerds call a 'happiness aggregator.' People confuse kindness with being nice. And they're very different. You can be nice and be passive. But kindness requires action.

~Daniel Lubetzky

Topics: About Action Be Nice Being Being Nice Call Confuse Different Happiness Kindness Magical Nerds Nice Passive People Requires Things Very You

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I make mistakes daily, letting generalizations creep into my thoughts and negatively affect my behavior. These mistakes have taught me that the first step to successfully choosing kindness is being more mindful about it, letting go of impatience and intolerance along the way.

~Daniel Lubetzky

Topics: About Affect Along Behavior Being Choosing Creep Daily First First Step Generalizations Go Impatience Intolerance Kindness Letting Letting Go Make Me Mindful Mistakes More Negatively Step Successfully Taught Thoughts Way

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