Best of IdeaCast: Escape Your Comfort Zone

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Harvard Business Review

Leadership, Entrepreneurship, Communication, Marketing, Business, Business/management, Management, Business/marketing, Business/entrepreneurship, Innovation, Hbr, Strategy, Economics, Finance, Teams, Harvard

4.4 • 1.9K Ratings

🗓️ 4 July 2023

⏱️ 24 minutes

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We know that trying new things, taking risks, and even failing are vital to most success stories. But getting out of areas where you’re comfortable and breaking through to the next level is easier said than done. Andy Molinsky, professor of organizational behavior at Brandeis International Business School, says that there are actions we all can take to get out of our safe zone and achieve our goals. In this classic episode, he shares his research and advice with former IdeaCast host Sarah Green Carmichael. Molinsky is the author of Reach: A New Strategy to Help You Step Outside your Comfort Zone, Rise to the Challenge and Build Confidence.

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0:56.0	Welcome to the HBR Idea Cast from Harvard Business Review. I'm Kurt Nickish.
1:11.0	The business world values expertise.
1:14.0	Take the 10,000 hour rule, or the expression that practice makes perfect,
1:18.0	whatever framing you have for it, this definition of expertise is grounded in comfort.
1:25.0	The idea that you've gotten so good at something that it has become second nature.
1:30.0	Nothing's a stretch for you, you're comfortable, you're effortlessly in the zone.
1:35.0	But the flip side of expertise is that we learn by doing things we have not yet mastered.
1:42.0	We also know that many breakthroughs happen when you are outside of your comfort zone.
1:48.0	This anti-expertise is something that Andy Malinsky has studied.
1:52.0	He's a professor at Brandeis International Business School and he wrote the book Reach.
1:57.0	A new strategy to help you step outside your comfort zone, rise to the challenge, and build confidence.
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