Daniel J. Levitin

And this gets to the Pomodoro method of work and break cycles.

My favorite example of that is Barack Obama wearing the same clothes every day, but yeah. Sure. If you don't have to make that decision... There's a limited number of decisions you can make in a day and no matter who you are. And there are a number of studies of this.

My favorite example of that is Barack Obama wearing the same clothes every day, but yeah. Sure. If you don't have to make that decision... There's a limited number of decisions you can make in a day and no matter who you are. And there are a number of studies of this.

My favorite example of that is Barack Obama wearing the same clothes every day, but yeah. Sure. If you don't have to make that decision... There's a limited number of decisions you can make in a day and no matter who you are. And there are a number of studies of this.

Now we're getting a little far afield from the music idea, but there was a study of Israeli court judges and they tended to hand out more arbitrary sentences at the end of the day. So the message is, if you were going to appear in court, you want to be at the early days of the calendar. Oh, and you don't want to be right before the lunch break when they're tired.

Now we're getting a little far afield from the music idea, but there was a study of Israeli court judges and they tended to hand out more arbitrary sentences at the end of the day. So the message is, if you were going to appear in court, you want to be at the early days of the calendar. Oh, and you don't want to be right before the lunch break when they're tired.

Now we're getting a little far afield from the music idea, but there was a study of Israeli court judges and they tended to hand out more arbitrary sentences at the end of the day. So the message is, if you were going to appear in court, you want to be at the early days of the calendar. Oh, and you don't want to be right before the lunch break when they're tired.

Exactly. They might be feeling hungry for food, but really their brain is hungry for glucose. The fuel of the brain is glucose, and it's what allows neurons to do their work. So you want to get in the default mode as a way of allowing your brain to replenish its own resources. And you can do that in a number of ways. You can go for a walk in nature. You can meditate. You can take a nap.

Exactly. They might be feeling hungry for food, but really their brain is hungry for glucose. The fuel of the brain is glucose, and it's what allows neurons to do their work. So you want to get in the default mode as a way of allowing your brain to replenish its own resources. And you can do that in a number of ways. You can go for a walk in nature. You can meditate. You can take a nap.

Exactly. They might be feeling hungry for food, but really their brain is hungry for glucose. The fuel of the brain is glucose, and it's what allows neurons to do their work. So you want to get in the default mode as a way of allowing your brain to replenish its own resources. And you can do that in a number of ways. You can go for a walk in nature. You can meditate. You can take a nap.

You can listen to music.

You can listen to music.

You can listen to music.

May I approach the bench, Your Honor?

May I approach the bench, Your Honor?

May I approach the bench, Your Honor?

And as your thinking becomes cloudy, you have less of an ability to assess your own thinking.

And as your thinking becomes cloudy, you have less of an ability to assess your own thinking.

And as your thinking becomes cloudy, you have less of an ability to assess your own thinking.

Well, it's a version of the Dunning-Kruger. Yes. The problem with people who lack intelligence fail in two accounts. One is they make bad decisions, but the other is they're overconfident because they don't realize that they lack the intelligence to make a good decision.