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b"The Comfort Zone is something that everyone thinks they know and understand. If you can't jump outside your comfort zone, you can not truly succeed in business or in most of personal life. Most people think they move out of it on a regular basis. After listening, you may have a very different view. Dare to enter! Comfort Zone for Social Skills, Networking, Business is so important and yet so scary that few dare to truly roam.\\n\\n\\n\\nThe Comfort Zone is hugely misunderstood as people only look at themselves. Far more important to breakthrough success is the zone of others.\\nThe Comfort Zone is hugely misunderstood as people only look at themselves. Far more important to breakthrough success is the zone of others. This episode is meant to supply comfort zone examples.\\n\\nMost people talk about the comfort zone, but few every truly go outside it. Why?\\xa0Why can pushing the envelope be a bad thing?\\n\\nYour comfort zone in not the only comfort zone that holds you back. Everyone around you has a comfort zone, too, and those will affect yours and stepping out of your comfort zone. How do you overcome this (go to Episode 20)?\\n\\nToday I\\u2019m going to talk a little bit differently on a topic that most people feel that they know fairly well, and they probably do to some extent \\u2013 the comfort zone. We have lots of opinions, ideas, and thoughts on it, but I want to try to think about it in a little bit more expansive and different way.\\n\\nOf course, the comfort zone is where you go in where you\\u2019re needing to learn new stuff or you\\u2019re going to learn new stuff. That is you go outside the area you\\u2019re comfortable with to get into something that is different.\\n\\nIt is learning what makes you uncomfortable. It is also social situations, whether in person, online, meeting new people in uncomfortable situations, networking, etc., at first you're going to have some level of discomfort. There is some level of uncertainty of the outcome. It\\u2019s part of learning. We\\u2019ll figure part of that out in a little bit. Also, in social situations, meeting new people, will you be accepted? Will you be embarrassed? All those situations are outside the comfort zone.\\n\\nA little bit of a warning, in a sense, because thinking about this, we get back to the concept mentioned in the first episode on causality; cause and effect of being in a situation or on the edge or outside of your comfort zone, you are going to have certain other things take effect. That is: when you\\u2019re uncomfortable, why is that? Your judgment is going to be a little off, you\\u2019re going to be in a risky, stressful, uncertain situation.\\n\\nMany people think of the comfort zone as pushing the envelope. Let\\u2019s think of a diagram of a circle with a dot in the middle.\\n\\nWhen I was at one company, my boss brought me in for something and said: \\u201cGee, I\\u2019m very concerned.\\u201d I was actually brought into this company to make changes. My boss said: \\u201cI want to make sure that people are not uncomfortable.\\u201d I said: -\\u201cMay I borrow your whiteboard?\\u201d -\\u201cYeah, sure.\\u201d\\n\\nSo I scratched off some of the junk that was on there, put a dot and a circle, with a dot right in the center of the circle.\\n\\nI said: \\u201cThink of this as a comfort zone. You don\\u2019t want me to just push slightly on the edge of it. You really want to make change, here.\\u201d He said: \\u201cYes, absolutely.\\u201d I said: \\u201cChange that\\u2019s going to be new and different, that is going to make people uncomfortable.\\u201d\\n\\nNeedless to say, we soon realized what those implications were. This guy is really bright, and even somebody like that, people that don\\u2019t understand or talk about the comfort zone don\\u2019t really have a good feeling of what it is and what it means to step outside and get outside of it and therefore expand your comfort zone.\\n\\nGoing outside the comfort zone, that is part of learning, is going to be subject to the stress on you going outside into something new, the uncertainty about the outcome, and the risks you\\u2019re taking by going out there. The risk can be monetary or it could be embarrassment."