Picture this: You're walking from the Fort Hamilton station on the way to your weekend south 7p-7a shift. You see a never ending row of ambulances parked in front of the ambulance bay. You can already feel the 2+ hour wait in your heart and soul.
What's the last song that's blasting through your air pods as you walk into the ED?
Hmm, don't have one? Well, my dear friends, you need a walk-up song!
In addition to being a fun form of self-branding, a walk-up song can inspire and motivate you, as well as become a part of a ritual to calm your nerves and boost your confidence. And the coolest part? There is real evidence that pre-task music can objectively improve performance.
Music captures attention, triggers a range of emotions, alters or regulates mood, increases work output, heightens arousal, induces states of higher functioning, reduces inhibitions and encourages rhythmic movement. Music has ergo-genic effect as well, it increases exercise performance, delays fatigue and increases performance and endurance, power and strength.
If this didn't convince you to pick a walk-up song, check out the talk from Dr. Joelle Borhart at FIX 19 that inspired this POTD. Link below.
https://feminem.org/2020/01/02/you-need-a-walk-up-song/
And by all means, please let me know what songs y'all are blasting or are we all just listening to Adele's latest drop on repeat? ...or is that just me?
Please, go easy on me.
Reference: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5435671/