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The History of Cognitive Overload - Farnam Street

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Highly successful people have many of the daily distractions of life handled for them, which allows them to better focus their attention.

Thinking | Reading Time: 17 minutes The History of Cognitive Overload The Organized Mind: Thinking Straight in the Age of Information Overload , a book by Daniel Levitin, has an interesting section on cognitive overload. Each day we are confronted with hundreds, probably thousands of decisions. Most of which are insignificant or unimportant or both. Do we really need a whole aisle for toothpaste? In response to all of these decisions, most of us adopt a strategy of satisficing , a term coined by Nobel Prize winner Herbert Simon to describe something that is perhaps not the best but good enough

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