Recently, I have been reading a book and found that the concept of comfort zone is very good, and I have heard a lot of people talk about it before, but it seems that not many people understand it. So I would like to share my understanding of the comfort zone based on my own experience, and I hope it will be helpful to everyone.
When I was young, I had a period of special enthusiasm, and I was easy to be radical in what I did, and I often wanted to get everything done in a short period of time and make achievements, but I suffered setbacks, and my previous enthusiasm and radicalism were also swallowed up, and many plans just went away.
I'm a little older.,It seems to have entered another extreme.,I always want to do things that I'm particularly familiar with.,Even the passive input things like listening to songs and watching TV series.,I just want to watch what I've watched before.,Familiar.。 As a result, I continue to compromise with myself, and I rely more and more on past experience to do things, and as a result, I become more and more negative, and occasionally I feel that this state is the maturity after entering middle age.
But there is a saying, "You can deceive anyone, but you can't deceive yourself." The result of the above state is that when I look back on the whole year during the Chinese New Year, I think that I actually have nothing to do with my daily work that makes me feel particularly fulfilled, and I feel that "this year has not been in vain".
The most terrible thing is that after holding the mentality for a long time, you will feel that you should not embarrass yourself in everything, and you will not be embarrassed by anything anyway, and even the original enthusiasm and radicalism are gone.
However, there are still some things that I have persevered in over the years, such as listening to the podcasts of my favorite knowledge bloggers every day, watching first-hand humanities and social sciences quality courses every day (a complete set of courses on station B, not short ** slice sharing), and some documentaries, and after watching it, write some short essays. These things that persevered have yielded great benefits, far more than my whims.
So I couldn't help but reflect on why I persevered in these things, but I couldn't do other things.
After thinking about it for a long time, one day when I saw the "Cognitive Awakening" mentioned in my last article, I finally felt that I had figured it out. In fact, the key is the concept of comfort zone. Further, there is the "comfort edge zone".
The previous radical me was actually trying to get out of my comfort zone to challenge myself, but later I found that the result of the challenge was nothing but to prove that I was very stubborn. In addition to the tasks that have to be done at work, other self-challenges have shamefully failed, and the more you need to persist for a long time, the more ugly the outcome will be. But you don't need to start a fierce self-challenge, you only need to do something a little bit, but you stick to it.
So life is really tangled, but if you really think about it, what is really persistent, after all, if a thing can only last for a week, no matter how powerful the thing is, there is nothing to boast about.
Conversely, an insignificant event, accumulated over several years, will produce a huge change, which is what we call a lot of the "compound interest effect". We often see that if a person starts saving money from a very young age, even a little bit every month, after 30 years, he will save a huge amount of money.
Recently, there is a famous sentence in a Japanese drama called "How to Use 3,000 Yen": "People will live a different life because of 3,000 yen (144 yuan)." "In fact, it means that you can do things that can be done or work hard and can persevere, and you can create a different life. (ps: If you want to watch me write this show, you can leave a message to me, and I will try to write an issue).
In fact, in the same way of writing, the more you need to persist in this kind of thing for a long time, the more you follow the same principle, and it can be explained in one sentence: if you are determined to persist in doing something with willpower, then please set your daily goals low, so low that you don't even need perseverance to stick to it.
To take it a step further, don't let yourself completely jump out of your comfort zone, do strong self-confrontation, it's easy to give up, put yourself in the comfort edge zone, or comfort stretch zone, so that in the long run, you will not only reap the effect, but also gain confidence.
Therefore, the compound interest curve and the comfortable stretch zone are a good pair**. Together, they can give us a macro view of the power of patience, and that power is suitable for every ordinary person. Regarding the concept of comfort stretching zones, the author of "Cognitive Awakening" said.
By the way, I highly recommend everyone to read this book "Cognitive Awakening", I didn't read it before I also thought this was a gimmick greater than the reality, similar to the kind of success learning, but I read it with a beneficial attitude of opening the book, only to find that it was full of dry goods, and my last article "From ineffective reading to being able to start output, how many roads have I traveled" also mentioned that this book helped me. You can read it in WeChat reading, which is very convenient.
3. Compound interest effect.
The compound interest effect is good, in fact, because of the scale it eventually brings, and when the scale accumulates to a certain extent, something beyond your imagination will emerge. Many ways to play can only rely on scale to play, relying on scale to achieve an overwhelming advantage, which I believe everyone can also experience, and you may understand it better to give an example:
Since the recent incident of a certain celebrity** is very popular, let's also talk about the matter of fitness**. Before chatting with a professional fitness coach, he said that for people who go to the gym every day to exercise, the first three months will not have any obvious effect, belonging to the foundation building process, he feels very tired every day, but the objective amount of exercise is not large.
It wasn't until three months later, when you did hundreds of dumbbells and dozens of pull-ups in one breath, that you started to really fit out, and in the second year, the body adapted to high-intensity training, and the amount of training at this time could be as good as a month two years ago, which is compound interest, and the larger the scale, the more you get.
Why do professionals say that this star's **method is not suitable for ordinary people, because people ** is work, we are in the spare time**, and the energy and money that can be invested bring returns are not at all in the same order of magnitude. It's not a matter of scale, and the gameplay is definitely different.
Bottom line: Sticking to "low goals" every day will set you up to great heights. Finding an area where you are comfortable, working hard in your comfort zone will make your life better, reaching unimaginable heights. The key to the compounding effect is accumulation, and the key to accumulation is to be able to do it every day, but not how much to do at a time. When the scale is reached, you can ask ordinary players to play, unlock more ways to play, and reach the category of compound interest.