"Compartmentalize strategically to commit fully to a cause Malcolm X was a highly intelligent, critical thinker who nonetheless embraced Nation of Islam theology that even the hosts acknowledge 'seems very odd to outsiders' — including literal beliefs about the origin of white people. The hosts explain that 'he had to take parts of his brain and just turn them off — the suspicious part, the critical thinking part' — and by compartmentalizing, he was able to throw himself so fully into the movement that he became 'the best thing that ever happened to the Nation of Islam by far.' This illustrates that deep commitment to any mission sometimes requires deliberately suspending your inner critic, a decision with both productive and dangerous implications worth examining before you make it. Source: Josh Clark and Chuck Bryant, Stuff You Missed in History Class, Malcolm X"