Is it Time to Leave Your Comfort Zone? [58]
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This week, we\\u2019re discussing comfort zones. This is a phrase coined by a business consultant called Alasdair White who described it as: \\u201ca psychological state in which things feel familiar to a person, and they are at ease, and in control of their environment, experiencing low levels of anxiety and stress. In this zone, a steady level of performance is possible.\\u201d
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\\nThat doesn\\u2019t sound too bad does it? But psychologist Robert Yerkes suggested that to perform at our best we need to be in a state of what he called \\u2018optimal anxiety.\\u2019 Too anxious and our performance goes down, but it seems that we are at our most creative when we are just outside of what is comfortable for us.
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\\nThis week, we discuss these ideas and debate whether it\\u2019s necessary to stay comfortable and safe in some areas so that we can be brave and bold in others. We also offer some questions you can use to determine whether you are working at \\u2018optimal anxiety\\u2019 or whether you are holding yourself back. Those questions are:
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- What areas are your comfort zones? Is this where I want to be? \\n
- How am I feeling about this? (What beliefs are holding me in this energy space?) \\n
- Where might a risk it take me? (Long-term benefit) \\n
- Where am I over-complicating this? (how could I make it easy?) \\n
Other topics this week include the value of community, an unusual approach to painting edges, and a new way of looking at an \\u2018impossible\\u2019 project
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