Evolutionary psychologist Robin Dunbar has just released a new book entitled Thinking Big: How the Evolution of Social Life Shaped the Human Mind. Dunbar wrote his book along with two archaeology colleagues, Clive Gamble and John Gowlett. For simplicity, at times, I’ll refer to Thinking Big as Dunbar’s book. In the rest of this post […]
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Summarizing “Hamlet’s BlackBerry: Building a Good Life in the Digital Age” (part 13)
Happy New Year everyone! To refresh your memory (after our Holiday break), here’s my “sum the sum” from part 12 of my summary of Hamlet’s Blackberry: Ben Franklin realized he suffered from what we would call today ADHD (attention deficit and hyperactivity disorder). Franklin used rituals centered on acquiring certain virtues to improve his Executive Function […]
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Bulleting “The Organized Mind”—Externalizing Mind
Welcome back to my multi-part blog series wherein I will briefly discuss bullet points taken from Daniel Levitin’s 2014 book entitled The Organized Mind—Thinking Straight in the Age of Information Overload. In this installment we will look at Levitin’s take on externalizing the mind. Levitin suggests that one effective way of organizing the mind is […]
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