Dorie Clark on compartmentalizing emotions when you're grieving but still have to work. She talks about giving keynote speeches while dealing with personal loss, and how pushing through can work if you let yourself rest afterward.
Back to your point about compartmentalizing. And you're right, it gets a bad rap, right? But I think in doses, it makes sense, because on my end, like, when I was dealing with the loss of my son, I was still doing keynote speeches, right? And I would say to myself, like, I know you're hurting right now. You got to be perfect for the next hour. That's it. You have to be perfect for the next hour. There's no options, or else you can't support your family. That's how it goes. And I think that resilience, that stoicism, that this commitment to the task that you talked about is almost lost these days to an extent. And I don't want to say, like, in today's society, because whenever you say that, it's like this sweeping statement, but it's like, yes, you shouldn't ignore it entirely, but if you have to get on stage, if you have another book deal, you got to push through that shit for a bit. And that's. That's it. I'm not trying to be insensitive, but the only way is through and then take a break afterwards.