Daniel Levitin

In order to be a world-class expert in anything, be it audiology, drama, music, art, gymnastics, whatever, one needs to have a…

— Daniel Levitin

I think we've debunked the myth of talent. It doesn't appear that there's anything like a music gene or center in the…

— Daniel Levitin

People have different styles: Some are filers and some are pilers. The people who pile things often know exactly where things are,…

— Daniel Levitin

Every status update you read on Facebook, every tweet or text message you get from a friend, is competing for resources in…

— Daniel Levitin

One big promise of the Internet was that it would be a great democratizing force, allowing us to become exposed to new…

— Daniel Levitin

The history of science and culture is filled with stories of how many of the greatest scientific and artistic discoveries occurred while…

— Daniel Levitin

Another possibility is that evolution selected creativity in general as a marker of sexual fitness.

— Daniel Levitin

When people silo themselves by belief, only affiliating with like-minded media organizations and people, we lose the opportunity for genuine conversation, much…

— Daniel Levitin

That daydreaming mode turns out to be restorative. It's like hitting the reset button in your brain. And you don't get in…

— Daniel Levitin

There are a lot of books about how to get organized and a lot of books about how to be better and…

— Daniel Levitin

I became interested in structure when I was in graduate school. How is it that the brain perceives structure in a sometimes…

— Daniel Levitin

Brain extenders are anything that get information out of our heads and into the physical world: calendars, key hooks by the front…

— Daniel Levitin

As soon as you hear a proposition, the creative brain in humans assumes for the moment that it's true, and starts trying…

— Daniel Levitin

We're assaulted with facts, pseudo facts, jibber-jabber, and rumour, all posing as information. Trying to figure out what you need to know…

— Daniel Levitin

If everything in the environment is utterly predictable, you become bored. If it's utterly unpredictable, you become frustrated.

— Daniel Levitin

Use the environment to remind you of what needs to be done. If you're afraid you'll forget to buy milk on the…

— Daniel Levitin

We need to take a step back and realize that not everything we encounter is true. You don't want to be gullibly…

— Daniel Levitin

Our to-do lists are so full that we can't hope to complete every item on them. So what do we do? We…

— Daniel Levitin

Similarly, dance is not just a raging sea of unrelated bodily movements; the relationship of those movements to one another is what…

— Daniel Levitin

I'm not a great guitarist, and I'm not a great singer.

— Daniel Levitin

The state-of-the-art techniques really allowed us to make maps of how Sting's brain organizes music. That's important because at the heart of…

— Daniel Levitin

Americans spend more money on music than on sex or prescription drugs

— Daniel Levitin

Our brains are very, very good at self-delusion. What happens is, it releases the stress hormone cortisol in the brain, which leads…

— Daniel Levitin

I don't think we should have less information in the world. The information age has yielded great advances in medicine, agriculture, transportation…

— Daniel Levitin

I think, though, that we need to be armed with the critical thinking skills that lawyers and scientists and journalists such as…

— Daniel Levitin