Hi my name is Lewis Howes and welcome to the Daily Motivation Show.

20 years as a Navy SEAL, one of the attributes you talk about is compartmentization.

Yeah. How do you do that?

If you're an emotional human being, you have these deep connections to your family and friends,

how do you just detach in a sense

and become more machine-like for a period of time

and then allow yourself to feel deeply in other moments?

The way I talk about compartment

is more surrounded by the way our brain functions and processes

information versus I'm going to block something out

so I don't have to think about it.

However, I think most team guys, SEALs, Speck Ops guys, have a very high

ability to compartmentalize away from things, they block out things that are painful.

I know that about me, and I know that about my buddies,

because you have to, because war sucks, you know.

And at the end of the day, the mission has to be accomplished.

You know, training teaches you to compartment my lawns.

You become very, very good at compartment you to compartment in a relationship. I think those of us who were able to

recognize that actively try not to do that with our families and so it becomes much more of a precision tool

versus a frenetic thing that just happens without us having control over.

One of the things that you have to be able to do when she goes sideways is to not focus on that thought you just brought up, right?

The focus is not, oh my God, I don't think I'm going to get out of this.

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