![]() Later, we developed other mechanisms -such as calendars, filing cabinets, computers, and smartphones- to help us organize and store the information we’ve written down. They effectively extended the natural limits of human memory by preserving some of their memories on clay tablets and cave walls, and later, papyrus and parchment. The first humans who figured out how to write things down around 5,000 years ago were in essence trying to increase the capacity of their hippocampus, part of the brain’s memory system. More than just remembering things wrongly, “we don’t even know we’re remembering them wrongly.” ![]() … It’s also the story of how the most successful members of society-from successful artists, athletes, and warriors, to business executives and highly credentialed professionals-have learned to maximize their creativity, and efficiency, by organizing their lives so that they spend less time on the mundane, and more time on the inspiring, comforting, and rewarding things in life.” Memory ![]() The Organized Mind: Thinking Straight in the Age of Information Overload, a book by Daniel Levitin, explores “how humans have coped with information and organization from the beginning of civilization. ![]()
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