Post #906

Comfort Zone and Challenging Yourself🤯 It is crucial for leading a successful and fulfilled life to constantly challenge yourself. It doesn't really matter how you define "success" - it applies to every imaginable domain in life. The moment you start getting too comfortable with where you are, what you do, etc., you know for sure you're stuck. What does it mean "challenge yourself" or "get out of your comfort zone”? To me, it means developing every possible part of your life by constantly seeking something new, something out of my standard perspective. Trying to understand other people's opinions even if your initial thought was "what a bullsh*t". Seeing the world through various perspectives and thereby expanding and improving your own. 🎯 That is what challenges me the most and gets me out of my comfort zone. I assume it's pretty much the same for lots of other people. I believe, "challenging oneself" is a certain framework, a certain mentality that one should be developing and improving night and day. It makes you aware that the world and people around you are much more complicated than you think. It should never stop. And it never does. That’s the true beauty of it. So, coming back to a more "down-to-earth" approach - your comfort zone is a setup of people you talk to on a daily basis, the way you do certain things, places you normally visit, things you typically buy, etc. I am not saying that you should change everything at once. No, that would be just impossible and stupid. We do need some things in life that are stable. However, when it comes to success or development of, let’s say, a particular skill, confronting "standard procedures" and “routines” is inevitable. Once a neural pathway is established, the brain doesn't give that much effort and attention to it since it would work pretty well automatically. This brain's ability is excellent for survival, but not for our case. 🧠 Since you want to be constantly improving at something, you gotta keep criticizing and questioning yourself, your skills, methods, knowledge, beliefs, etc. That is partially why young people tend to generate fresh and creative ideas as opposed to professionals that "know for sure" something isn't gonna work. Danger‼️: you don't want to have too much novelty and uncertainty. Because 1. It's pretty tough mentally to keep questioning what you think is a common truth, so you gotta be careful with that. 2. You want to get that positive feedback and some motivation to push you forward - we are not robots after all 🤖. My point is that you have to function on the edge of your capabilities, having a certain amount of established and proven routines/ truths AND on top of that, asking yourself enough questions so you neither get lost nor become too comfortable. Stay out of your comfort zone ✌️ @per_aspera_ad_astra_tg - share my channel with your friends! #TooDeep