Daniel Levitin has more insights per page than any other neuroscientist I know. The organized Mind is smart, important, and, as always, exquisitely written.

Arthritic toothless people who love orgasms are more likely to reproduce than are limber, toothy people who do not.

Variety improves the things that we do too often, but it rules the things that we don't do often enough.

Our inability to recall how we really felt is why our wealth of experiences turns out to be poverty of riches.

The brain and the eye may have a contractual relationship in which the brain has agreed to believe what the eye sees, but in return the eye has agreed to look for what the brain wants.

The secret of happiness is variety, but the secret of variety, like the secret of all spices, is knowing when to use it.

Daniel Levitin has more insights per page than any other neuroscientist I know. The organized Mind is smart, important, and, as always, exquisitely written.