The benefits of getting out of the comfort zone

Some friends may say: because the original state feels comfortable, the future changes are full of unknowns, so it must be uncomfortable.

So, the question is:

1. If the original state feels comfortable, why change it? There must be some problems in the original state, you are not satisfied, and you want to change it. Think more about things that make you feel dissatisfied. Perhaps, the comfort zone that once made people feel nostalgic has become a disaster area that people are eager to escape.

2. Does "unknown" necessarily mean discomfort? "Unknown" may just mean "unaccustomed", but think again, what are the natural habits? When we were children, when we explored the world with curiosity, how many "unknowns" did we have, what kind of enthusiasm did we try, and then casually got up and continued to explore? Facing the unknown with the spirit of "exploration" is much better and more positive than using "fear" in any case.

When we have a clearer understanding of our desire to change, and when we have a stronger desire to explore and change in the future, it is not "going out of the comfort zone". Transformation is nothing more than going from a familiar place to a novel place, and it is a transitional period to open the door to the future.

It is better not to know the pain than not to be afraid of it.

When I was a child, an inexperienced nurse always said, "Be brave and don't be afraid of pain!" " At that time, in order to show his "courage", he gritted his teeth, tightened his muscles, frowned and sacrificed heroically. As a result, the more nervous, the more painful it is, and the muscles are too tight. If the nurse's skills are poor, it may take more stitches to solve the problem.

If you meet an experienced nurse, you will prepare needles while chatting, tell stories and jokes to your children, and then shoot the needles out. When the child reacts, the needle has been finished.

My child learned to skate when he was a child. When she finished her first class, I asked her, "What did you learn today?" She excitedly showed off to me: "The coach said, first learn to wrestle, then learn to skate!" " I learned to wrestle today! "This excitement seems to indicate that wrestling doesn't hurt at all.

Many friends know that if you don't exercise for a long time, your muscles will definitely ache the next day. For friends who don't like sports, this feeling is an inevitable pain, but for friends who love sports, this feeling is called "sour and refreshing" because they know that it is this sour and refreshing that represents that they have achieved the amount of exercise that can improve key indicators. In the sour and refreshing, they can obviously feel the muscles growing.

During the transition period, there must be some feelings different from the past. Pain is just a definition. You can define it as "pain" or "growth". If it is defined as "growth", it may be better to perceive and observe with an exploratory mood than to "endure" with tight muscles.

When "getting out of the comfort zone" becomes a habit.

Once, in the reading community, everyone was talking about the reading experience of a business trip. Some people read quickly and wait at the airport. The plane is late 1 or 2 hours, and they can finish reading 1 or 2 books. I have been delayed for eight hours. How many books should I bring? ! I once took five books on a business trip in a week and brushed them all.

A friend suggested bringing a Kindle. At that time, many people including me said that the reading experience of e-books was not good. At that time, Chen Xiaohui, the boss of Zhan Lu Culture, expressed his views in the group. Don't let reading habits become an obstacle to reading. Hearing this, I thought, yes, I started with Kindle. I was a little uncomfortable at first, but with my ability to "cross the comfort zone normally", I got used to the Kindle in less than a month.

This little experience is also "out of the comfort zone". Although the technical difficulty is not great, it has brought great help and greatly expanded my reading time and space. Now there are hundreds of books in the Kindle, which has become a necessary tool for me to carry with me. Even going to the bathroom is taken with a mobile phone Kindle.

In work and life, there are many small things that need to be improved. In fact, they are all small "out of the comfort zone" again and again. For example, tidy up the desktop, check typos before posting, spend 5 minutes meditating every day, do eye exercises and so on.

These fragmented "out of comfort zones" have at least two advantages:

First, it can help us cultivate a lot of good micro-habits, improve the quality of work and life a little bit, make more small improvements and less big changes;

Secondly, it can make us more and more familiar with the feeling and skills of "getting out of the comfort zone" in constant fine-tuning. When "getting out of the comfort zone" has become a habit, just like visiting a neighbor's house, there is no such thing as "getting out of the comfort zone".