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You’re Out of Your Comfort Zone. What Can You Do About It?
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The fear of getting out of your comfort zone
We are all afraid of new experiences, especially of the ones that require us to leave the safety of our comfort zone.
The way we react whenever this occurs has a big influence on how we live our life: instead of being scared, why not trying to embrace the new challenges with optimism and self-confidence? The results might be quite impressive.
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Managing your mindset
There are two types of mindset: fixed and growth.
The first one can be met at individuals who believe that both success and failure are based mainly on innate abilities, which cannot be changed throughout one's lifetime, while the second mindset describes a person who is aware of the changes and improvements that the personal actions can bring.
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Learn to grow outside of your comfort zone
One useful thing to remember when facing challenges is that having a growth mindset allows you to live a less stressful and more successful life. Therefore, take any given opportunity to you learn and, therefore, grow from your experiences. Three steps worth considering when you find yourself outside your comfort zone:
- evaluate your reactions to new situations
- try to become curious when realizing that you are out of your comfort zone
- take every new challenge as an opportunity to learn.
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What shapes our mindsets
Our mindset is said to be shaped by previous experiences as well as by a reward-based learning system.
Getting the necessary motivation while facing new challenges with a positive mindset can truly change your experience.
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Growth Mindset
People with a Growth Mindset believe they can grow, develop, and master whatever skills and abilities they wish in life.
They enjoy learning and overcoming challenges, work...
Mindset is a belief system
It includes the ideas we have about ourselves and the world around us.
These beliefs come from our innate dispositions, childhood experience and/or cultural/societal influence and are often entrenched.
Examine the evidence
If you believe you can’t learn new skills or change the way you work, look at the evidence that supports both your negative and positive beliefs.
This may not necessarily lead to a modification of those beliefs, but is an important start. You can use belief monitoring to keep track of your thinking.
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A growth mindset is a desirable thing to have...
...so many people declare they have it:
- If they are open minded and flexible, they said they have it
- If they are kind to people, they said they have it
But a&nb...
The growth mindset
...is the belief that your abilities can be improved through effort.
And this means you can get better and hard work pays off.
Tips for encouraging a growth mindset (in yourself and in others):
- Don’t praise ability or intelligence: That promotes a fixed mindset. Compliment effort, process and choices.
- Don’t ignore outcome, tie it to effort: You can be happy about success, but attribute it to effort.
- Respond positively to failure: Failure isn’t bad, it’s a tool for improving.
- Don’t just say “Try hard.” Set goals: Blind repetition doesn’t work.
- Practice a Growth mindset in all areas of life: There’s no area where they cannot improve with hard work.
- Share your own Growth mindset efforts: Practice it yourself and share your results.
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"Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited to all we now know and understand, w..."
Albert Einstein
Imagining Your Future Self
Most people tend to visualize themselves as being the same after a decade, mistakenly assuming that the current version of us is our best and last one. We are a work-in-progress with our skills, likes, dislikes change over time, making us completely different from what we think we would be.
There are three main steps that can help us blossom into someone desirable: Distinguishing our various selves, imagining our desired future self, and changing our identity narrative.
Distinguish Your Various Selves
- Labelling ourselves into definitive personality types (like an introvert or not being a people’s person) limits our minds and robs us of our space to evolve and change over time.
- We get stuck in the self-labelling and the various ‘accepted truths’ about ourselves that we assume cannot change.
The truth is we are never the same person as we were in the past.