“It is necessary to leave the comfort zone” - perhaps everyone heard this phrase. And it is used by people who want to make changes in their lives. A comfort zone is a life without fuss, problems, dangers, where everything goes as it should, without force majeure and stress. The question arises - why then leave this comfort zone if everything is so good in it?
In fact, the development of man without the so-called "magic kick" is almost impossible. In order to start changes in life, you need an incentive! Because in a comfortable state, where the scenario of life is known in advance and every day is similar to the previous one, the desire to change something does not arise by itself. In this state, the need to set goals, achieve them and develop is lost, and this is nothing but the beginning of degradation.
An interesting feature is that the desire to leave the comfort zone most often arises in those people who, in essence, were not in it.
For example, perhaps the most common desire at the present time for people is to take care of their own health and force themselves to start running in the mornings. (This is a way out of the comfort zone.) But, if you "dig a little deeper" and look for the reason why it is almost impossible to allocate time for sports in the morning, it turns out that a person simply does not have the free time necessary for this! And this is not because I want to sit on the Internet in the morning at breakfast or for some other reason. The fact is that a person simply does not sleep his daily norm, or sleeps exactly as much as the body needs to restore strength. And it would be worth the opposite, to enter the comfort zone, and not leave it. Because you can always get out of it …
There is another reason - this is a misunderstanding and use of the expression "zone" of comfort. If a person is not suitable for personal reasons (for example, low wages, far from home, an uncomfortable schedule, a difficult team, etc.) and he wants to change it, but does not take any action, then this is not a way out of the comfort zone (what comfort it is under such working conditions), and perhaps reluctance to act and look for another job for some reason.
Being in the comfort zone is really necessary so that you can grow and improve.
Just as a car engine cannot operate without fuel, so human development is absolutely impossible until there is a necessary supply of energy. There can not even be talk of personal growth or training leadership skills if a person has not met his needs for food, sleep, health, safety, communication.
A very striking example of the importance of staying in the comfort zone is observed at all kinds of festivals. In most cases, at such events master classes of various topics and directions are held. But, as soon as they arrived at the festival, people first set up camp and prepare the place where they would come to rest and spend the night.
For each person, the needs for comfort will be different, depending on many factors. But referring to Maslow and his pyramid, the primary needs are: food, sleep, water, etc. When these needs are met (a person eats well, sleeps enough, etc.) a new level of needs arises: security, stability, confidence in the future. and the basic needs are already satisfied. Further, when a person feels safe, he directs his attention to the development of the level of friendship and love. When there are friends and love in the family, a person has a new horizon for realization and growth - respect among others, self-esteem, recognition and self-affirmation. And only after all this there is a need for the implementation and development of abilities.
Returning to the concept of "comfort zone", the question now arises: when is it now to leave, and is it necessary? When a person has replenished his resources, has sufficient energy and strength, has reached a maximum at this level, then this comfort zone in which he was, as if becomes overfulfilled. And there is a desire to go beyond this zone and move to a new level of development, leaving the old one. This is a process that occurs independently, and there is no reason to speed it up (only in exceptional cases).