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Cognitive bottlenecks: the inherent limits of the thinking mind
There’s one key fact, he said, that every human being needs to understand—and everything else he was going to explain flows from that. “Your brain can only produce one or two thoughts” in your conscious mind at once. That’s it. “We’re very, very single-minded.” We have “very limited cognitive capacity.” This is because of the “fundamental structure
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good decisions can only be made when we have the right information at the right time. Yet with our cognitive resources stretched thin, we must find alternative means of managing the information we consume to unlock our true creative potential when needed.
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Good decisions create time, bad ones consume it. Good initial decisions pay dividends for years, allowing abundant free time and low stress. Poor decisions, on the other hand, consume time, increase anxiety, and drain us of energy.
Multitasking, in short, is not only not thinking, it impairs your ability to think.
I find for myself that my firs... See more
Multitasking, in short, is not only not thinking, it impairs your ability to think.
I find for myself that my firs... See more
Farnum Street • How to Think: The Skill You've Never Been Taught
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We also know, more definitively than we ever have, that our brains are not built for multitasking—something that precludes mindfulness altogether.
Maria Konnikova • Mastermind
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Every second, millions of bits of information flood into our senses. Yet the human brain can only handle about 7 bits of information at once, and the shortest time it takes to discriminate one set of bits from another is one-eighteenth of a second.7 “By using these figures,” as Csikszentmihalyi explained in Flow, “one concludes that it is possible
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