I was watching the Colbert report where Steven Colbert was interviewing the artist M.I.A. What was astonishing to me that was how much her mannerism has changed from the time when she was being interviewed to the time she was performing. What looked like a little girl trying to hold herself together turned into a vibrant, self-confident and impressive performer. Then I realized that we all exhibit such behavior. We are all somewhat awkward and lacking in confidence when it comes to many things in our life, but there is most often one activity which we can take charge of. I have seen many professors who are very awkward socially, but when they get onto the dias to give a lecture, they suddenly become one of this impressive, larger than life and charming people. I have seen some of this in most of my friends.
This takes be back to the discussion we were having about compartmentalization, about how we all hold some superstitions by the means of ignoring our cognitive dissonance. In this aspect, could the above phenomenon be called positive compartmentalization? Could it be that we restrict our source of confidence to a very narrow aspect of our life? Either way, I think we owe most of our civilization to this aspect of our psyche.
This takes be back to the discussion we were having about compartmentalization, about how we all hold some superstitions by the means of ignoring our cognitive dissonance. In this aspect, could the above phenomenon be called positive compartmentalization? Could it be that we restrict our source of confidence to a very narrow aspect of our life? Either way, I think we owe most of our civilization to this aspect of our psyche.
