The Comfort Bubble
Everyone is always in a walking comfort bubble, rarely do people stray from this comfort or challenge their reality in any ways, why? Cause its easy to stay in your comfort zone, its easy to stay comfortable. People are lazy creatures and they rarely go outside the bubble of comfort or "comfort zone". I prefer to call it a comfort bubble rather than comfort zone, because I imagine the comfort zone as a bubble surrounding most people which is very real socially. Do you notice people rarely talk to you or anyone else unless they want something from you, or you have something to give. People are stuck in this bubble going through life in a daze.
Usually we only allow certain people into this bubble, these are people that we have built much comfort with over a period of time friends or family. What is a friend? It is someone who has a high level of comfort with us. This is an evolutionary instinct to only trust certain people that are familiar to us, to not stray outside our tribe or social group. Guess what? That means our ancestors had anxiety and fear when approaching strangers and they passed that on to us. Most people will go through THEIR ENTIRE LIFE in this bubble because there to lazy to break out of their comfort zone.
Also your friends have a big impact on your comfort bubble. When your with friends there in your bubble, so when your in a group your comfort levels mesh and your only as strong as your weakest member. So if your friends have no game, and they are stuck in their bubble your better off Sarging alone. That's right sometimes that's what you have to do. You don't want their comfort levels limiting you.
So how do I expand My Comfort Bubble? Well you have to go out of your comfort zone, you have to challenge your reality. In almost every situation you can go down one of two roads,
1. you can challenge your comfort,
2. or you can stay in your comfort bubble.
The only way to expand your comfort bubble is to break out of it and challenge it. Take the harder road instead of the easier one. Every time you break out of this bubble it will make you stronger! It will make your bubble expand little by little making your comfort bubble bigger, and making you have social superpower's.
Over time by constantly breaking out of this bubble, it will make you stronger. Over time you will be able to start a conversation with anyone. Over time you will become fearless.
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