Too much of a good thing…
“Too much memory, attention or willpower, instead of making us into uber-geeks, might drive us the way of the wooly mammoth. Our gift as a species—what brought us on an evolutionary track relates to our capacity to allocate just enough cognitive resources to the task at hand to get the job done.”
Ritalin and Other Cognitive-Enhancing Drugs Probably Won’t Make You Smarter
