“I don’t want to hear anything about the election and it’s only January,” she said in an interview last month. As questions about our political, environmental and technological future loom, experts say that compartmentalizing can be a useful tool to help us regulate our emotions and face challenges without falling apart. A dirty wordDr. Tara Swart, a neuroscientist and professor at MIT Sloan School of Management, recognizes that the term “compartmentalizing” is loaded. “Actually, no one can do that.”Instead, Swart says, compartmentalizing can be both good and bad for you. Healthy compartmentalization involves regulating your emotions while unhealthy compartmentalizing means repressing them.

Source: Los Angeles Times February 21, 2024 19:41 UTC