# Quote — Daniel Levitin, The Organized Mind

> Fondness for stories is just one of many artifacts, side effects of the way our brains work.

- Author: [Daniel Levitin](https://www.leafyquotes.com/daniel-levitin.md)
- Book: [The Organized Mind](https://www.leafyquotes.com/daniel-levitin/the-organized-mind.md)
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- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/daniel-levitin/the-organized-mind/fondness-for-stories

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> Recent research in social psychology has shown that happy people are not people who have more; rather, they are people who are happy with what they already have. Happy people engage in satisficing all of the time, even if they don’t know it.

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> You’d think people would realize they’re bad at multitasking and would quit. But a cognitive illusion sets in, fueled in part by a dopamine-adrenaline feedback loop, in which multitaskers think they are doing great.

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> In 1976, the average supermarket stocked 9,000 unique products; today that number has ballooned to 40,000 of them, yet the average person gets 80%–85% of their needs in only 150 different supermarket items. That means that we need to ignore 39,850 items in the store.

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