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Occupying the comfort zone isn’t always detrimental. For example, it might be reasonable to stay in your ukulele-playing comfort zone but not your managing-personal-finances one.
The point is to identify bottlenecks: areas of life where being too comfortable does more harm than good. Encourage goal selectivity so you can focus effectively.
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You can only grow if you are willing to feel awkward and uncomfortable when you try something new.
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An essential step toward internalizing the growth mindset is to embrace neuroplasticity research. Once understood, less courage is needed to make the first move away from comfort because failure itself becomes integral to the j...
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A habit of expanding our comfort zone equips people to handle change and ambiguity with more poise, leading to resilience.
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You have calibrated life when most of what you fear has the titillating prospect of adventure.
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When employed sensitively, honesty can be a tremendous catalyst for personal growth.
Whether being straight with yourself in a private journal or tellin...
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Creativity – anything from writing a poem to building a business – usually involves an element of risk.
Creative endeavors are about stepping into the unknown, with failing and subsequent learning as expected outcomes.
Exercising creativity is a good way to train...
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Similarly, many aspire to this goal. For some, it can mean running their first 5K, but for others, it might be completing a triathlon.
Aiming high with exercise is emblematic of leaving the comfort zone and a great way to get the ball rolling.
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While exploring alternative perspectives can be uncomfortable, it enables growth and insight by challenging entrenched beliefs.
This might take several forms, such as reading varied book genres, diversifying who you talk to, and visiting new places.
It’s easy to get ...
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Becoming is better than being. The fixed mindset does not allow people the luxury of becoming. They have to already be.
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In everyday life, there are ample opportunities to challenge yourself.
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Stanford psychologist Carol Dweck’s (2008) work on mindsets marked a paradigm shift in the field of positive psychology.
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As outlined by Albert Bandura (1997), self-efficacy is the belief in being able to execute necessary actions in service of a goal.
Goals that lead to higher self-efficacy are s...
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Physiologically, there’s no difference between anxiety and excitement (Smith, Bradley, & Lang, 2005).
Both entail a ‘stress response,’ but whether they’re perceived as positive or negative is a matter of labeling.
Society tends to conceptualize all stress as...
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Growing your skillset can foster creativity and refresh your self-confidence, as well as increase employability.
Skills like public speaking, negotiation, and leadership can rep...
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Many people want to improve their diets and stop relying on ‘comfort foods.’ Doing so often means trying something new.
Sticking to a healthy diet can be as challenging as it is rewarding, with self-efficacy growing as you hit milestone goals along the way.
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“The comfort zone is a behavioral state within which a person operates in an anxiety-neutral condition, using a limited set of behaviors to deliver a steady level of performance, usually without a sense of risk.” - Judith Bardwick in her 1991 wor...
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One can choose to go back toward safety or forward toward growth. Growth must be chosen again and again; fear must be overcome again and again.
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My comfort zone is like a little bubble around me, and I’ve pushed it in different directions and made it bigger and bigger until these objectives that seemed totally crazy eventually fall within the realm of the possible.
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It’s okay to take small, methodical steps, as well as larger, bolder ones.
Leaving behind the comfort zone doesn’t mean recklessly throwing caution to the wind. Every step forward is progress.
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Without continual growth and progress, such words as improvement, achievement, and success have no meaning.
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This is true not just for more tangible types of performance such as being given a stressful new task at work, but also in many life areas such as understanding ourselves, relating to others, and so on.
The core idea is that our nervous systems have a Goldilocks zon...
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For many, self-actualization acts as a powerful incentive to leave the comfort zone.
Maslow’s hierarchy of needs operates like a ladder, with the satisfaction of our ‘bas...
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“What a man can be, he must be. This need we may call self-actualization.”
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When leaving the comfort zone, fear doesn’t always equate to being in the panic zone. As the above diagram shows, fear can be a necessary step en route to the learning and growth zones.
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In 1907, Robert Yerkes and John Dodson conducted one of the first experiments that illuminated a link between anxiety and performance.
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