How to Get Organized
David Allen says to stop using your brain wrong
In the old days, it made sense to carry everything around in our brains. There wasn't that much to know, and anyway, no one knew how to write. A head full of knowledge was a good thing.
But those days are gone, says executive organizer David Allen -- and the challenge now isn't to fill one's head with knowledge, but to dump it out, hose it down, and wipe it dry.
But then came the age of knowledge. Peter Drucker first observed that while our parents' work mainly involved making and moving, our work seems to involve mostly thinking.
In truth, most of us show up for work every day not knowing exactly what to do that day. Rote work is dead, replaced by fresh thinking. And fresh thinking requires a fresher, cleaner environment than a mind that more closely resembles a refrigerator door loaded down with mental magnets, PostIt notes, and scribbled to-do's.
What we need is to relax. Allen cited an example from martial arts -- the fighter increases hitting speed by eliminating tension. "Your ability to generate power is directly proportional to your ability to relax."
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