“The most fundamental principle of the organized mind”

—  Daniel Levitin , book The Organized Mind

The Organized Mind (2014)
Context: The most fundamental principle of the organized mind, the one most critical to keeping us from forgetting or losing things, is to shift the burden of organizing from our brains to the external world.

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