thinking straight in the age of information overload

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LSE's Centre for Philosophy of Natural and Social Science established in 1990, promotes research into philosophical, methodological and foundational questions arising in the natural and the social sciences, and their application to practical problems. Jonathan Birch is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Philosophy, Logic and Scientific Method at the London School of Economics and Political Science. His latest book is The Organized Mind: Thinking Straight in the Age of Information Overload. Daniel J Levitin is James McGill Professor of Psychology, Behavioural Neuroscience and Music at McGill University in Montreal. I’ll also share secrets from some of the highly successful people I spoke to in doing research for the book: CEOs of some of the largest corporations in the world, artists, scientists, nobel prize winners, generals, admirals, governors, senators, and U.S. With Kat Redstone, Natalie Marie Perry, David Atkins, Helen Walton.

This talk will address the myth of multi-tasking, advice for how to better structure our time, and how to better organize decision making using examples from health care contexts. Thinking Straight: Directed by Ric Forster. I’ll review the cognitive neuroscience of attention and memory, and how recent findings can help all of us to become more productive. Yet some highly successful people are able to stay highly efficient and productive. Speaker(s): Professor Daniel J Levitin | The information age is drowning us in a deluge of data, and it is becoming increasingly difficult to separate facts from pseudo-facts, objective from biased sources, and at the same time, we’re all being asked to do more at home and at work. Too much information, too many decisions : the inside history of cognitive overload - The first things to get straight : how attention and memory work - Part Two.

Thinking straight in the age of information overload