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.
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That walk around the block, that fresh air, is going to help you work more quickly and effectively when you get back.
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To improve at chess you should in the first instance study the endgame.
Some plague the people with too long sermons; for the faculty of listening is a tender thing, and soon becomes weary and satiated.
There is nothing so costly as ignorance.
The school-to-prison pipeline - the disproportionality that exists in handing out school discipline in schools to Black and Brown students for simple infractions - pushes kids out of classrooms and into our ever-growing system of mass incarceration.
Having enough to eat, being able to educate your children, have reasonably stable employment, and being able to live in a society which isn't collapsing around you-all of these things have been generally eroded.
Literature was the passport to enter a larger life; that is, the zone of freedom. Literature was freedom. Especially in a time in which the values of reading and inwardness are so strenuously challenged, literature is freedom.
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