When I Decided to Keep My Head Down






Post this paragraph on My Path : 

I think that’s what’s wrong with the world; no one says what they really feel, they always hol it inside. They’re sad, but they don’t cry. They’re happy, but they don’t dance or sing. They’re angry, but they don’t scream. Because if they do, they feel ashamed and that’s the worst feeling in the world. So everyone walks with their heads down and no one sees how beautiful the sky is. – Anonymous 

And my friend commented on my comment column :

Why Do you need you need to put your head down? 

Because, as Jackson asserts, focused minds produce great work. This is why he advocates “head down” time: a section of the day for focused, productive work –aspirin, if you will. The problem, he says, is that we’re usually “heads up,” wading through the sundry stimuli of tweets, meetings, and other assorted tasks. Before we know it, it feels like we’ve sacrificed our career to the fickle gods of email. 

Why Does putting your head down work so well?

The more you’re multi-tasking, the worse you are at realizing that you’re so bad at multitasking. Look at anyone texting while they drive-all that switching tasks produces is a major cognitive load, taking up your brain bandwidth and crowding out your capacity to monitor you actions. 

The advantage of keeping your head down, then, is that you get to take full ownership of the stimulation you’re wading into. You get to be intentional about the way you invest your cognitive load you get to be mindful. You get to be mindful about what’s entering your mind. 

If it sounds a little Zen, that’s because it is : As Shunryu Suzuki, who brought Japanese Buddhism to the U.S. back in the ‘70’s, once wrote, discipline in creating the situation So when you put your head down, you put yourself in the situation to do meaningful work.

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