Disorientation Quote by Nicholas Carr

“Thinking too much also creates the illusion of causal connections between unrelated events.”

— Steve Martin

“Each person you meet influences your mental universe in a way that has the potential to make a substantial impact upon the causality of…

— Abhijit Naskar

“Several teams of German psychologists that have studied the RAT in recent years have come up with remarkable discoveries about cognitive ease. One of…

— Daniel Kahneman

“The more mindless the task, the higher probability of subconscious disruption can stimulate creativity.”

— Pearl Zhu

“Experiments show that just as the brain can build new or stronger circuits through physical or mental practice, those circuits can weaken or dissolve…

— Nicholas Carr

“Mental effort moves us into higher gear, activating more vigorous and more analytical brain machinery.”

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

The superiority of one mind over another depends on the rapidity with which experiences are thus organised.

— George Henry Lewes

“A chain is as strong as its weakest link…... and a brain is as strong as its weakest think!”

— Ankala Subbarao

“People adjust less (stay closer to the anchor) when their mental resources are depleted, either because their memory is loaded with digits or because…

— Daniel Kahneman

“once in a cognitive tunnel, we lose our ability to direct our focus. Instead, we latch on to the easiest and most obvious stimulus,…

— Charles Duhigg

“Signals’ prioritising mechanisms become dislocated in times of overload.”

— Gilbert Andrew Hugh Gordon

The summation of human experience is being expanded at a prodigious rate, [but] the means we use for threading through the consequent maze to…

— Vannevar Bush