3 Reasons You Are Stuck in Your Comfort Zone and 4 Steps to Break Out

On Purpose with Jay Shetty

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Health & Fitness, Business, Mental Health

4.8 • 28.5K Ratings

🗓️ 18 March 2022

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

Having a space where you feel comfortable to work on your tasks and be productive in your goals, and a safe space for you to be yourself is something we all want for ourselves. But this comfort zone doesn’t offer much room for growth and that is because the repetitive tasks that we do daily to remain productive doesn’t lead to new discoveries, challenges, and creativity. It’s just repetitive and nothing new happens. Growth becomes stagnant.

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0:00.0	The overbearing molly coddling of ourselves creates fragility. It creates weakness
0:10.5	not strength so that when a storm comes and we have to hold our own and we have to
0:14.4	find a way to get the nourishment and the nutrition we need to stay strong and
0:19.1	stay standing. We don't know how to look for it because we've never been able to
0:24.1	look for it before. Hey everyone welcome back to on purpose the number one
0:34.7	health podcast in the world thanks to each and every single one of you that come
0:39.5	back every week to listen, learn and grow. And today's episode is all about growth.
0:47.7	How many of you and be honest with yourself? How many of you have spent the
0:53.8	majority of your time in your comfort zone? How many of you know how hard it is to
1:01.2	get out of your comfort zone? And how many of you even when you try even when
1:08.5	you push your limits, even when you make that opportunity, you put your best
1:14.9	foot forward, you still feel completely trapped by your comfort zone. That's
1:22.5	what I find so fascinating about comfort zones is often we don't even know
1:28.0	we're inside one. We don't even know that we have one. We just assume that this
1:34.9	is what life is. This is how it works. This is how it goes. Not recognizing that we
1:41.6	are being contained. We are being trapped. We are being restricted and limited by
1:49.3	our mindsets, our beliefs, our actions, our behaviors. And so much of this
1:55.5	limits what's possible in our lives. Now I was reading an incredible study
2:04.9	about how Judith Bardwick came up with the phrase comfort zone. And this is how
2:14.2	she described what a comfort zone is. And this is without a doubt the best
2:20.1	definition I've heard of a comfort zone. And you can even make a note of this.
2:26.3	The comfort zone is a behavioral state within which a person operates in first
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