How to pronounce “compulsively” in English

And eventually we figured this out and realized this was why the knives and forks were usually encrusted with food. You know, my dad is -- you could call him'compulsively cheap'. So I grew up my whole life trying to figure him out. And, like Katie said, I also complained bitterlyabout it. My mother did too.

The shark is behind door one, and the money is behind door two.I compulsively worked through hundreds of these as a kid.And I was fortunate my mother stumbled on Smullyan's book "Alice in Puzzle-land." How many of you read "Alice in Puzzle-land?" I was going to say, there's got to be at least a couple.

None of us knew when he was talking about. I shook my head and whispered to one of the journalists, "What is he referring to?"I compulsively rewrite everything, every book. So if I read something 30, 40, 50 times and

with it, then a commitment around, what are the kind of guardrails or boundaries I'm going to put around this behavior, including work,to help myself not compulsively engage.Because what happens with addiction is that we become very two-dimensional, and we isolate.

So soft addictions are those seemingly harmless habits like overeating, over shopping, watching too much TV, checking your Facebook pages a zillion times during the day, checkingyour email compulsively. But over doing anything, over doing any normal everyday activity beyond its usefulness for some other purposes.And it has a lot more cost than we're aware of.

you looked through the emails and the conversations and everything that I was having about it, really the central character in those emails was the boss. It was either, and I went throughand fairly compulsively at one point counted my emails; it was a lot. And about 80 percent of the emails, the central character was the boss. It was either the boss who wanted tobe better or it was an employee, very often, who had an asshole boss and in some cases I'd have success stories. They moved from a bad one to a good one or good one to a bad

And of course, if we do that from time to time, no problem.But if we do that compulsively and a lot, and in fact, can't face life situations without doing it, well, then we have a substance abuse problem.Let's take another common problem.

I have a friend who's a corporate litigator in New York, who has Tourette's.The thing that Lionel does of stretching his neck and jaw compulsively is what my friend does.Most people don't even think he has Tourette's.

But if you're going to watch something tonight, you're like, it's lowbrow stuff.But what happens when we multitask or really compulsively check our email-- the norm is 36 times an hour, by the way.

sorry yeah Eric my editor Kinski butknow like you get like a kid who just sort of compulsively collects ideas you know and can't stop doing it from the

you need, you need to feel somebody's there with you. And so I wanted that sense of a voice in the kitchen.And we don't have to be so compulsively fussy. We've gone too far in that direction. I mean recipes talk about in a bowl combine the first mixture with the second mixture - we don'tcall things what they are. I'd really, the first time I came upon that I thought, "What's my mixture?" And I looked, and up in the first paragraph Step, 1, 2, 3, 4; you don't cook

And what is the reason for that?That anything that you want to do in the public sphere involves and requires compulsively cooperation with large numbers of people.And that perhaps is something which we are not that good at.

So yeah, check it out.Thank you. Yeah. And Milan, also just to tell you my own story about that, my 11-year-old daughter compulsively watches theseMBARI videos just as you did when you were young.

if the goal is to abstain.And less than that generally isn't enough time in somebody who's seriously addicted but might be enough time in somebody who is just compulsivelyoverconsuming, which is, I would say, most of us at this point.

and just always gathering out information and guiding the complicated politics he navigated through.Charles Darwin, the most influential scientist in human history, same thing-- he compulsivelywas interested in what other people thought.

Amanda Pressner: We all kind of agreed.Holly Corbett: I-I think that too, we didn't do a lot of journaling. I know when I travel alone I compulsively journal. I'll, I will sit there and write everything down, but becausewe were traveling with-with three of us all together we would talk a lot. So it was nice that we had a collective memory. Whenever I couldn't remember something, I would call

--accustomed to having there on the phone.But I found that, A, my battery lasts longer on the phone, because it's not constantly updating high volumes of email, B, it's something where I don't just compulsively startchecking the work email-- Yeah.