We were talking before about how in Mexico, I think, we haven't done such stark or marked categorizations or compartmentalizations. You know, the words vegetarian and vegan. I was talking to my editor when we were writing the book.
We'll give you some free coffee later too. of compartmentalize certain projects in certain worlds.
And if anybody sat in her coaching session with Sally Anderson and she asks you what your superpower is, I know my superpower is my ability to compartmentalize things. And a story just to illustrate that is I wake up one morning. I'm in high school.
and I think not uncommon um for people who have experienced you know a lot of hardship sometimes they compartmentalize and it's like forward only and this whole part of her life she never talked about and I think when you're younger you ask a lot less questions like now I would tell everyone who's listening like
So she's kind of what you would assume a stereotypical Asian mom is. She can't compartmentalize. She has a hard time thinking outside the box. So I think when she heard that I wanted to be a model, she immediately metaphorically just fainted on the floor.
And we had this dish there where he just-- again, it was this thing where, if you know a certain amount of Japanese cuisine, you still compartmentalize what these things are for and you don't take them out of their context. So, shio tare is basically like a base, first for soups and sauces.
One was a situation where sexism wasn't possible where it was between two women. They might be compartmentalizing it.
I'm probably easier on letting myself down, but I don't like letting other people. If we can compartmentalize-- if you want to use that term-- things in our life, we can actually put ourselves into a state flow, and just
And we didn't have a lot of interaction because, as is typical with a lot of Opera companies, the dancers and the singers-- everything is so compartmentalized. And eventually, I started to study pole dancing and acrobatics just for fun with no intention of ever putting it
So now to look at what's happening here-- I don't want people to forget that there was a fight from many, many years So you compartmentalize. Like for me, my brain has-- I want all sides of it to work.
in particular, the Catholic church was going to label notes of the devil, and things not to play. Knowledge is very compartmentalizing.
porous right we kind of can't leave home at home anymore right with email and texts I think there is something to be said for compartmentalizing and being able to bring that Focus to work and that's a whole other talk that I love to give but my point is also this which is I think in incredibly instructive to this
And nobody notices, and nobody really cares because these people are very old and near death. And so he compartmentalizes his research to try to make sure it doesn't get into the wrong hands, and then he's murdered.
that it's keeping me from liking my job. they had to compartmentalize on the way up, that really makes it hard for them to fully support other women.
And they're very, very different experiences. could not compartmentalize our relationships.
You can't compartmentalize your life.
all in perspective and compartmentalized.
You are not a compartmentalized being.
Something you can compartmentalize, something with a beginning and an end, something to fill with a to-do list.
You said something interesting about compartmentalizing.
- I was pretty good at compartmentalizing, you know, and just saying... I try just to go, and with all creative work, I go, "Well, I feel like
And so I kind of compartmentalize.
I think it's easy to compartmentalize people, because it allows us to be able to navigate life, right?
And that's kind of how we compartmentalize these different dishes.
So I had to create more-- compartmentalize the anecdote versus analysis stuff.
It was not something you could compartmentalize as being a matter of coastlines.
It's harder because everything is so compartmentalized now that people who hack Linux don't talk to people who hack Windows, let alone hardware hackers and people who
I've seen it. I've done it. And the world and language likes to compartmentalize things.
So it's being able to compartmentalize what you're doing, your technique, your craft, and being able to access it whenever you want to be able to access it.
It's not something that I can compartmentalize, put on a shelf, and forget about.
is that we try to compartmentalize everything so that we've got the food and diet over here, we've got the exercise over there, and we've got the socializing over -- it's all sort
nature there and this idea of like compartmentalization and taking something that's very cold and lifeless
You listen, you compartmentalize.
So it sounds like you have to actually compartmentalize your time to write.
There is no such thing as linear thinking or compartmentalization.
stress -- is, compartmentalize. And that is we only see one aspect of what's going on. And there was a group we were working with,
When we're outside our window, we are much more likely to experience trauma. We're much more likely to be relying on these thinking brain override habits like compartmentalization, pain suppression, suck it up and drive on, and we're also much more likely to have our survival brain hijack the situation where stress and emotions are driving our behavior.
I mean, suppose we stopped compartmentalizing death, cutting it off from life.
But then surgeons, the way we become compartmentalized as specialists, we're responsible for this part of the problem, but not the whole part of the problem.
This is the poison, it's compartmentalization, it's separation.
the beginning of the industrial revolution where classrooms were created with these compartmentalized, here's an English teacher, here's a math teacher, here's a science teacher as opposed to tutors or apprenticeships were kind of the norm before
And what I learned during that time is that sometimes, you just have to compartmentalize certain things.
But it's something that I've done a long time, so I got used to compartmentalizing it, and it just being a gig I do.
They used to put us in a box, that you had to compartmentalize the things that you want to do.
Absolutely. So I wanted to talk a little bit about vision and values and the compartmentalization around the four-way approach,
He does share, like all spies, the compartmentalization of his life.
And so that began my sort of research on, why do we have this sort of compartmentalized notion
I don't want to derail-- I want to keep everything nice, and compartmentalized, and orderly.
He thought of himself as a rational person, good at compartmentalizing, good at avoiding flights of fancy.
that we have to build this bomb and end this war, and a guy who has compartmentalized and repressed a lot of misgivings and self-doubt in order