Get out from your comfort zone, do you really know what zone you are in?
There is a famous experiment in psychology - boiling frogs.
Put the frog in the boiling water, it jumps out of the pan and escapes, and when it is heated slowly in warm water, it does nothing until it boils, until it is ripe and unaware.
In psychology, the first case is called a "crisis circle." It is an environment that creates a sense of crisis in survival and the environment and seeks to innovate and change. The second case is called a "comfort circle." It is an environment that adapts to all existing feelings, comfortable, makes people old-fashioned, and does not think ahead.
What is a comfort zone?
Comfort Zone (feel at ease on different occasions) describes everyone living in an invisible circle, in the familiar environment, with the people we know, do what we will do, so we feel very relaxed and comfortable.
But as we step out of the boundaries of this circle, we will immediately face unfamiliar changes and challenges, and therefore feel uncomfortable, and naturally want to return to the comfort zone.
But if we do not deliberately step out of our own comfort zone, so that we have the opportunity to overcome different setbacks and challenges, our development and progress will be very slow, not able to reach the potential.
"Get out of the comfort zone, get used to the discomfort and you'll be comfortable again, and the comfort zone will be bigger."
The "Comfort Zone theory" of pedagogy says that people who stay in a comfortable environment for a long time will not want to use their brains because of their ease of life, but if they were brought to a more sinister environment, when they experience challenges and pain, they will become mature.
In terms of self-confidence, how big is your comfort zone? A person without self-confidence, his/her comfort zone is very small, always afraid of being rejected, so doesn’t want to take the initiative to socialize with people.
Are you really that comfortable?
I saw a lot of people shared that they are wanting to get out of comfort zone, move towards a new self. I feel angry and funny when I saw these.
How come there are so many people who feel they are already in a comfortable zone and have reached a situation where they have to flee? I obviously don't think I have a comfort zone yet.
In recent years, there has always many shares to motivate young people to step out of their comfort zone and pursue the larger world.
Encouraging young people to advance, the pursuit of better self is good, but if killing all the situation, tell them to continue to be comfortable and undoubtedly destroy themselves, this motivation is somewhat suspicious.
Inspired by such rhetoric, not pursuing to be a successful person seems to have become something that will be despised.
Stable work is equivalent to low income and mediocre lifestyle. So a large number of people really left their comfort zone, they start from scratch, they work hard but don’t know where to rush and how to rush.
The circle you are leaving might not be your comfort zone, but your anxiety zone.
There’s a book that I read, saying that: “Resignation is not because of courage, but for the desire and underpinnings of a free life. Of course, want I want is not that much.”
“So those who envy me, you want to buy a big house, want to drive a luxury car, want to eat and wear expensive, don’t envy me." My simplicity, you can't afford it, it is better for you to work with peace of mind and go your own way.”
The author grasp of life is precise, and the precision is that she knows both her abilities and her needs.
But too many people don’t know their abilities nor their needs, and as soon as they see an article inciting them to "get out of the comfort zone," they feel that they are about to die in the comfort zone.
Then it is likely that they are not getting out from their comfort zone, but the anxiety zone.
Get out of the comfort zone, originally referred to as appropriate anxiety that is beneficial to efficiency and development, but it has been demonized today as an overly anxious remark: If you think that you are living comfortable, then you must be on the road of decline.
In fact, think about it, why do we have to be uncomfortable with ourselves? We need to live comfortably, but not live just to live or even to be retrograde to become any role but to constantly strive to adjust our abilities and needs to match the degree and live in balance.
Posted from my blog with SteemPress : http://walkinharmony.vornix.blog/2019/02/18/get-out-from-your-comfort-zone-do-you-really-know-what-zone-you-are-in/
I think that the Comfort Zone is just an externalization. When you feel comfortable only in some specific circumstances. To get out of the comfort zone, you have to destroy it completely, I think. If you feel comfortable with yourself, then there is no comfort zone.