We're assaulted with facts, pseudo facts, jibber-jabber, and rumour, all posing as information. Trying to figure out what you need to know and what you can ignore is exhausting.
Interpretation
Navigating the overwhelming influx of information can be tiring and confusing.
In today's world, we are bombarded with a vast amount of information, much of which may not be accurate or relevant. This quote by Daniel Levitin highlights the challenge of discerning valuable knowledge from misleading or trivial content, emphasizing the mental fatigue that can arise from this constant information overload.
In practice
In a seminar about media literacy, one might use this quote to underscore the importance of critical thinking in consuming news.
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 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.
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.
It's easier to resist at the beginning than at the end.
Cautiousness in judgment is nowadays to be recommended to each and every one: if we gained only one incontestable truth every ten years from each of our philosophical writers the harvest we reaped would be sufficient.
Dread remorse when you are tempted to err, Miss Eyre; remorse is the poison of life.
We have too many high-sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with them.
The starting point of discovering who you are, your gifts, your talents, your dreams, is being comfortable with yourself. Spend time alone. Write in a journal. Take long walks in the woods.
There are people who have benefited from therapy without being confronted with the past at all.
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