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

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🗓️ 9 February 2017

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Summary

Andy Molinsky, professor of organizational behavior at Brandeis International Business School, discusses practical techniques for getting outside of your comfort zone, and how that can develop new capabilities and experiences that can help your career. His new book is “Reach: A New Strategy to Help You Step Outside your Comfort Zone, Rise to the Challenge and Build Confidence.”

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0:08.4	Young Professional's Guide to Building a Meaningful Career on your own terms.
0:11.9	Share New Here with the Young Professionals in your life. a meaningful career on your own terms.
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0:15.9	Listen for free wherever you got your podcasts.
0:18.6	Just search new here. Welcome to the HBO Idea Cast from Harvard Business Review. I'm Sarah Green Carmichael. There's this
0:35.0	diagram you've maybe seen. It's about getting outside your comfort zone. There's one
0:39.8	large circle called your comfort zone and then a smaller circle well outside it called where the magic happens.
0:47.0	Sure, it's a little cheesy, but that hasn't stopped this doodle from plastering the walls
0:51.6	of college campuses, workplaces, maybe even your own cubicle.
0:55.8	And it also appeared on the HBO television series, Girls.
0:59.4	You get it, right?
1:01.4	Yeah, I get it.
1:02.4	Of course I get it. of course I get it.
1:03.0	Here's your comfort zone.
1:05.0	This is where the magic happens.
1:10.0	So, like, the magic happens outside to comfort zone.
1:14.0	Yeah.
1:19.0	Uh-huh.
1:19.0	Okay.
1:20.0	But there is something missing here, according to Brandeis International Business School Professor Andy Molinsky.
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