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Take it one step at a time you get the same benefits whether you take a big leap or a series of smaller steps.Focus on the benefits of what you’re about to do – for me in my video “How to step out of your comfort zone” conquering my fear of going into the sea off the coast of England, meant I could start going cold-water swimming with my partner (and I know the payoff of just conquering a fear – joy, self-achievement, experiencing something new).Everyone’s comfort zone is different – “optimal anxiety” is great, but be careful not to put too much stress on yourself

It’s great stepping out, but don’t go too far and overstretch yourself. “openness to experience” has been shown to be the best predictor of creative achievement in life. It means you’ll increase your intellectual curiosity, imagination, emotional and fantasy interests and a drive to explore your inner and outer lives. You’ll develop “openness to experience” – one of what’s known in psychology as the “big five” personality traits. How can we expect to evolve in our careers and lives if we stick to the same old habits and routines? Stepping out can help you get there faster, achieve more, learn new ways of doing things, and increase and expand what is actually possible for you to achieve.ģ) You’ll become more resilient and creativeīy taking risks in a controlled manageable way you learn to respond to other life changes and circumstances that can force you out of it – you become more resilient to the ups and downs of life. Without the sense of unease and discomfort of stepping out of our comfort zones, we tend to do the minimum to get by and lose the drive to go the extra mile and learn new things. If you want to keep on learning and expanding your horizons you need to keep on risking failure.Ģ) You’ll be more productive and perform at your peak There is no learning without discomfort, difficulty and stumbling. So unless you get out of your comfort zone, as you get older your personality will narrow and you won’t explore or experiment. But as we get older we learn to fear failure and start holding ourselves back from attempting new things. So there’s nothing intrinsically wrong with being there, unless you get more and more comfortable, and start holding yourself back from learning, developing, growing, and trying new things.ġ) You will grow and your life will expandĪs children, we’re natural risk-takers. You can see why it’s so hard to trick your brain to get out of there.īut it’s neither good or bad and is a good place to return to, to give yourself the headspace to recover and process the benefits when we do leave it. Our comfort zone is our natural state, a place with minimal stress and anxiety, where we know what’s happening next. Stepping out of your comfort zone into a new and challenging task helps create the conditions for increased productivity and performance.ĭid you ever do something you were proud of when you were on autopilot? But although stress and anxiety have become dirty words, psychologists view a little stress and anxiety as a good thing and it’s even known as ‘optimal anxiety’. When we step outside of our comfort zone we’re taking a risk and opening ourselves up to the unknown and all of the stress and anxiety that entails.

So why would you leave your comfort zone? It provides a state of mental security and you benefit in obvious ways: regular happiness, low anxiety, and reduced stress” (Lifehacker)

The comfort zone is a ‘’behavioural space where your activities and behaviours fit a routine and pattern that minimises stress and risk. I’ll be listing those here, but the first question to answer is… I'm just going to keep on coming back.But there’s actually a lot of science that explains why it’s so hard to break out of, why it’s so good for you to do it, and what can make it all a lot easier. Because it's during those scary moments, those unsure steps taken, that I am able to see that I'm like a comet hitting a new atmosphere: suddenly I illuminate magnificently and fire dusts begin to fall off of me! I discover a smile I didn't know I had, I uncover a feeling that I didn't know existed in me. That I see and feel who I really am, the most! I think that's what a comet is like, you see, a comet is born in the outer realms of the universe! But it's only when it ventures too close to our sun or to other stars that it releases the blazing 'tail' behind it and shoots brazen through the heavens! And meteors become sucked into our atmosphere before they burst like firecrackers and realize that they're shooting stars! That's why I enjoy taking myself out of my own element, my own comfort zone, and hurling myself out into the unknown. “I have realized it is during the times I am far outside my element that I experience myself the most.

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