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Breaking out of your comfort zone isn't about addressing defects, it's about growing as a person. If you are content staying in, great. Many people face paraly

Breaking out of your comfort zone isn't about addressing defects, it's about growing as a person. If you are content staying in, great. Many people face paralyzing fear or anxiety and want to overcome it or maybe just aren't happy with 100% of who they are. If you are, great, I don't think you're the target audience.

Joeboy 10y ago
> Breaking out of your comfort zone isn't about addressing defects, it's about growing as a person. Do you think it's the discomfort itself that helps you grow as a person, or something else? If not, what? For myself, I think I've probably got about as good as I'm going to get at faking sociability. Sometimes that's useful, but I don't see much point in experiencing discomfort for discomfort's sake.
- a_t48 10y ago
  For me it's more that breaking out of that comfort zone will let me get more opportunities for myself and meet more interesting people.
  - Ntrails 10y ago
    Some things are not fun. Being in a room filled largely with strangers is Not Fun, if they're all drinking it's Double Plus Not Fun. There is a chance that doing a not fun thing will result in longer term gains of fun via meeting people, but strangely when I'm miserable and uncomfortable it's unlikely I'll make friends and influence people. So I'll weight that with an appropriately small number and find that my overall happiness is higher by avoiding the above scenario. I could of course start drinking to take the edge off but that doesn't seem like a great idea overall. I'll stick in my comfort zone for now, where it's comfy. And there's tea.
thanatropism 10y ago
Once someone who knew about astrological signs and charts and stuff told me people were actually supposed to change signs as they mature. Then he "did my chart" on an interactive website and told me my second sign was the same as the first one.

Joeboy 10y ago

> Breaking out of your comfort zone isn't about addressing defects, it's about growing as a person. Do you think it's the discomfort itself that helps you grow as a person, or something else? If not, what? For myself, I think I've probably got about as good as I'm going to get at faking sociability. Sometimes that's useful, but I don't see much point in experiencing discomfort for discomfort's sake.

a_t48 10y ago
For me it's more that breaking out of that comfort zone will let me get more opportunities for myself and meet more interesting people.
- Ntrails 10y ago
  Some things are not fun. Being in a room filled largely with strangers is Not Fun, if they're all drinking it's Double Plus Not Fun. There is a chance that doing a not fun thing will result in longer term gains of fun via meeting people, but strangely when I'm miserable and uncomfortable it's unlikely I'll make friends and influence people. So I'll weight that with an appropriately small number and find that my overall happiness is higher by avoiding the above scenario. I could of course start drinking to take the edge off but that doesn't seem like a great idea overall. I'll stick in my comfort zone for now, where it's comfy. And there's tea.

thanatropism 10y ago

Once someone who knew about astrological signs and charts and stuff told me people were actually supposed to change signs as they mature. Then he "did my chart" on an interactive website and told me my second sign was the same as the first one.