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I'm not a great guitarist, and I'm not a great singer.
Our bodies like rhythm and our brains like melody and harmony.
We've always known that music is good for improving your mood.
Most jobs require some degree of creativity and flexible thinking.
Americans spend more money on music than on sex or prescription drugs
You're entitled your own opinions, but you're not entitled to your own facts.
Lies are an absence of facts and, in many cases, a direct contradiction of them.
I became a cognitive psychologist because I met a bunch of teachers I really liked.
Some people like very predictable melodies, and others prefer the less likely notes.
Music has got to be useful for survival, or we would have gotten rid of it years ago.
Evolution doesn't just look for things that are fun; if it did, we'd know how to fly.
The processing capacity of the conscious mind has been estimated at 120 bits per second.
We can be skeptical, suitably skeptical, and we can trust news outlets, some more than others.
No other species lives with regret over past events, or makes deliberate plans for future ones.
The obvious rule of efficiency is you don't want to spend more time organizing than it's worth.
I've always been interested in peak performance, why some people do better in life than others.
I like a world where each of us has the tools to be able to make able to make our own decisions.
If you don't get a good night's sleep, the events of the day are not properly encoded in memory.
We're making more and more decisions every day. I think a lot of us feel overloaded by the process.
Another possibility is that evolution selected creativity in general as a marker of sexual fitness.
Information overload refers to the notion that we're trying to take in more than the brain can handle.
When a language advances and adds a third term to its lexicon for color, the third term is always red.
In order to understand one person speaking to us, we need to process 60 bits of information per second.
What music is better able to do than language is to represent the complexity of human emotional states.
The phrase 'fake news' sounds too playful, too much like a schoolchild faking illness to get out of a test.
Even though we think we're getting a lot done, ironically, multitasking makes us demonstrably less efficient.
I reject the notion of a post-truth area. I don't believe there is such a thing, and we shouldn't accept that.
When you're at work, be fully at work. And let your leisure time be what it's meant to be - restorative and fun.
No one alive today has a single ancestor in his or her past who died in infancy. We are the champions, my friend!
If you aren't taking regular breaks every couple of hours, your brain won't benefit from that extra cup of coffee.
That walk around the block, that fresh air, is going to help you work more quickly and effectively when you get back.
It's getting harder and harder to know, when you find things on the Internet, what you can believe and what you can't.
Maybe instead of asking political candidates to submit tax returns, we really should be asking to see their brain scans.
Unscrupulous writers often count on the fact that most people don't bother reading footnotes or tracking down citations.
The kind of people who become graphic artists may not be mathematically inclined. They're artists, artistically inclined.
I actually became a producer because I saw the producers getting all the babes. They were stealing them from the guitarists.
If everything in the environment is utterly predictable, you become bored. If it's utterly unpredictable, you become frustrated.
Singing and dancing have been shown to modulate brain chemistry, specifically levels of dopamine, the 'feel good' neurotransmitter.
The electric guitar and its players hold a place of privilege in the annals of rock music. It is the engine, the weapon, the ax of rock.
I don't think I'm always right, but I would like to empower people to come to sound conclusions using a systematic way of looking at things.
The power of art is that it can connect us to one another, and to larger truths about what it means to be alive and what it means to be human.
Many people say some of their best ideas come from dreams. Arguably the greatest Beatles song, 'Yesterday,' came to Paul McCartney in a dream.
Activities that promote mind-wandering, such as reading literature, going for a walk, exercising, or listening to music, are hugely restorative.
When it comes to snowing people, one effective technique is to get a whole bunch of verifiable facts right and then add one or two that are untrue.
Anything you care about, from vacation plans to exercise to the best Ethiopian restaurant, is going to be guided by your individual search history.
In a country that was still racially segregated and prejudiced, music was among the first domains in which African-Americans thrived alongside whites.
Unfortunately, often found next to things that are true are an enormous number of things that are not - in websites, videos, books and on social media.
Multitasking creates a dopamine-addiction feedback loop, effectively rewarding the brain for losing focus and for constantly searching for external stimulation.
The amount of scientific information we've discovered in the last twenty years is more than all the discoveries up to that point, from the beginning of language.
I agree with the sentiment that it's probably more dangerous to believe some things that aren't so than to not believe something - you know, to believe in a lie.