alyshadecker 's review for:

The Organized Mind: Thinking Straight in the Age of Information Overload by Daniel J. Levitin

2.0

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I wanted to like this book. There were some sections that I found so valuable to my life, in particular the parts about the organized home and the misconceptions of multi-tasking. However, I found sections of this book tiresome and too drawn out. Many of his examples go on for pages. If you like thinking through problem solving, you might like the sections were Levitin goes through step by step thinking for different problems, but I always found myself wanting to skip through it.

There were a few sections that I found down right patronizing. Dr. Levitin speaks for pages about how we shouldn't trust doctors to understand statistics and his section on the lack of credibility of Wikipedia was just a bit overdone.

Considering this book was call An Organized Mind, it was overall lacking in any organization. I feel like this book came about by sewing together chapters on different parts of Dr. Levitin's research, without any common thesis or theme.