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 compartmentalization.

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 compartmentalization

and the attribute is more surrounded by the way our brain functions and processes information

versus I'm going to block something else so I don't have to think about it.

However, I think most team guys, SEALs, SPEC-OPS guys, have a very high ability to compartmentalize

away from things, you know, 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. At the end of the day, the mission has to be accomplished.

You know, training teaches you to compartment lines. You become very, very good at it. That could be a

detriment 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 shit 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. Focus is how do I get out of this? So the mental equity attributes, which are situation awareness, compartmentalization, task switching, and then learnability, right? So that's how information is coming in, how we're processing it and prioritizing, how we're switching between the necessary tasks and then how we're learning from our decisions, right? To even be able to do that in the first place it requires a forebrain dominance in the sense that you're not letting

your autonomic system take over into a fight-flight response, and you're able to think through stress, challenge, and uncertainty in the sense of say, okay, what can I control right now? And this is where trust in your teammates comes in, because now I have a team. I can say this with great pride and gratitude. I can

remember literally walking in areas, you know, when we're overseas and thinking, man, this is a bad

area. This is sketchy. And having complete and under faith because I was with my teammates, right? I was

around people who, I trusted. I knew that if something went wrong, we'd be able to handle it, you know.

And so I think that's a necessity when you do this type of stuff.

How do you train your mind to deal with chaos in the moment

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