11/4/2023 0 Comments Leave your comfort zone![]() Only by crossing the line of certainty and familiarity, you can grow. Stretching beyond your comfort zone is not about being courageous, but curious. The opposite of the Comfort Zone is the Danger space - personal growth happens in between: the Learning Zone. There are actually three, not two, zones where you can live. ![]() You don’t have to put your life at risk to leave your comfort zone. Start by getting rid of the ‘comfortable is safe uncomfortable is dangerous’ dualism. That’s the danger of staying in the comfort zone all the time - you end up bored and unchallenged. When we stop stretching beyond our own limits, we stop learning and growing. Having a comfort zone is not a problem - building a wall around it makes us feel numb. This wall seems to alleviate the pain, but doesn’t allow Pink to overcome the cause of his suffering. To avoid suffering, we build a wall around ourselves.Ĭomfortably Numb is a Pink Floyd’s song from the album “The Wall.” Pink, the character from the namesake movie, is burnt out - he creates a bubble to protect himself from the outside. The Hebbian version of the Yerkes–Dodson law Being comfortably numb ![]() The challenge is finding what Robert Yerkes and John Dodson called “Optimal Anxiety” - the sweet-spot between arousal and performance. Conversely, too much anxiety drops your productivity off. However, relative anxiety - a state where our stress level is higher than normal - can maximize your performance. Research has demonstrated that a state of relative comfort creates a consistent and steady performance. Simply put: do you want just to live or to thrive? We can continue living on autopilot or embrace discomfort to reap bigger rewards. This neutral state is both natural and human - our brain is lazy and leans toward the easiest path. Judith Bardwick, the author of “ Danger in the Comfort Zone,” defines the term as “ a behavioral state where a person operates in an anxiety-neutral position.” It’s a perceived certainty where we believe we have access to all we need - we feel we have some control. The comfort zone is a psychological state where one feels safe or at ease and without stress or anxiety. ![]() The term was originally coined after the temperature range within which most people feel comfortable, and feel neither cold nor hot (68 to 72 ☏ or 20 to 22 ☌). “Discomfort may be a doorway don’t run from it.” ― Joseph DeitchĪccording to Merriam-Webster, our comfort zone is the level at which one functions with ease and familiarity. What if you could stretch beyond your comfort zone on your own terms? Not because someone else pushes you to do so.įirst, you must get rid of the dualistic approach - being comfortable is not the opposite of living dangerously. The paradox of the FOMO approach is that, rather than neutralizing the fear, it creates more anxiety - those who are afraid of uncertainty get more stressed out. However, crossing the line of your comfort zone is not easy - science shows that experimenting new things makes everyone anxious and worried. Inspirational quotes encourage you to do something you wouldn’t normally do - you are missing out on life, they tell you. Your life is waiting at the other side of your comfort zone.
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