Hello everyone and welcome back to Your Absolute Mind podcast. I'm your host Paula Sweet. Today, we're

delving into a topic that's an absolute game changer in self-improvement and understanding yourself

to create profound change in your life. In today's episode, I'm going to be talking about

something called the Hawthorne Effect, which some of you may not know, and to be honest,

it's something that I myself only recently learned more about. Now, before we jump into the

Hawthorne Effect and how you can use it, I wanted to quickly mention the Your Absolute Mind app.

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Now, on to today's episode. In the pursuit of our personal growth and learning, we often find that comfort becomes the silent

enemy that creeps in for most of us. It lulls us into complacency and coasting through life,

not really trying. But we can actually turn the tables on comfort and we can use something

like the Hawthorne effect to push ourselves into the tables on comfort and we can use something like the hawthorn effect

to push ourselves into the realms of discomfort and actually create a profound change in life.

We actually have a comfort crisis happening in our modern life and the hawthorn effect

helps us to embrace the uncomfortable, which in turn can drive us to take action and engage with our challenges

and grow from them. And this is something I encourage my clients to do regular through sessions.

And if you watch all my videos, it's something that I encourage all of us to do on a daily basis.

There's actually a book called The Comfort Crisis and this book challenges you to step out of your

comfort zones and confront the ease that modern life often offers. When you consider using

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