The Organised Mind

Daniel Levitin is a McGill neuroscientist, and it shows — this is not another productivity book dressed up in brain science, but an actual account of how the brain processes and misprocesses information in the digital age. The section on decision overload alone is worth the read. Unusually, the book covers both personal and professional contexts, and the chapter on medical decision-making is one of the more practically valuable things I have read on that subject. The honest caveat is length: at nearly 500 pages, the book is denser than its topic requires, and extracting the most actionable advice demands effort. Some technology-specific sections have dated since 2014. But as a foundation for understanding why you feel mentally exhausted, it remains among the best available.