There are a lot of books about how to get organized and a lot of books about how to be better and more productive at business, but I don't know of one that grounds any of these in the science.
Interpretation
The quote emphasizes the lack of scientifically grounded literature on organization and productivity in business.
Daniel Levitin points out that while numerous books offer strategies for organization and productivity, they often lack a foundation in scientific research. This highlights the importance of integrating scientific principles into personal and professional development to achieve more effective and sustainable results.
In practice
In a business seminar focusing on productivity techniques, you could reference this quote to emphasize the importance of a scientific approach to improvement.
As soon as you hear a proposition, the creative brain in humans assumes for the moment that it's true, and starts trying to find evidence. It's what computer scientists in the old days used to call 'Fifo:' first in, first out. The first piece of information that gets in has a privileged position, even if it's misinformation.
What music is better able to do than language is to represent the complexity of human emotional states.
Information overload refers to the notion that we're trying to take in more than the brain can handle.
That walk around the block, that fresh air, is going to help you work more quickly and effectively when you get back.
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.
Unfortunately, often found next to things that are true are an enormous number of things that are not - in websites, videos, books and on social media.
When a child asks you something, answer him, for goodness sake. But don't make a production of it. Children are children, but they can spot an evasion faster than adults, and evasion simply muddles 'em.
We read to find out what the world is like, to experience lots of lives, not just the one we live. If it is true that our lives are chaotic and we crave a shape, stories are the shapes that we put on experience, containing all the wisdom in the world. We can even choose what kind of wisdom suits us.
Sacrifice. Work. Self-discipline. I teach these things, and my boys don't forget them when they leave.
Research shows that for jobs of all kinds, emotional intelligence is twice as important an ingredient of outstanding performance as cognitive ability and technical skill combined.
I think sometimes parents and teachers fail to stretch kids. My mother had a very good sense of how to stretch me just slightly outside my comfort zone.
There needs to be a lot more emphasis on what a child CAN do, instead of what he cannot do.
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