The Reason You are Not Growing
Your growth starts at the end of your comfort zone.
“Great things never came from comfort zones — Anonymous”
What does it take to break a world record? Any kind of record.
In athletics, you would need to run 100 meters in less than 9 seconds. Usain Bolt did it in 9.58s in 2009.
Good luck with that.
In the World Guinness Records, you would need insurmountable effort. Hilda Baci, a 27-year-old Nigerian chef, passed the 100-hour mark when she cooked for 4 straight days.
Breaking world records is symbolic of stepping out of your comfort zone.
But what does this entail?
The concept of a comfort zone emerged in 1908 after two scientists, Robert Yerkes, and John Dodson conducted experiments on maximizing performance.
The study concluded that to maximize performance, we need to be in a state of being just outside of our comfort zone.
This later became known as ‘optimal anxiety’.
It’s a fine balance between being motivated to succeed and not suffering from too much or prolonged anxiety.
