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In this video entitled Getting Out of your Comfort Zone,
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we will look at what the comfort zone is and why it is important to stay in it.
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Then we will analyze the locks and tensions that keep us there.
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we will describe all the advantages of leaving
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this comfort zone to enter a creative zone.
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What are the benefits of the comfort zone?
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The word speaks for itself,
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Humans are looking for comfort,
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and it's only natural
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in the comfort zone.
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Humans can relax and unwind.
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Being in your comfort zone is not a bad thing,
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I am in my comfort zone when I shoot this video in front of you.
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My friend Mark is in his comfort zone when he has to fix a computer bug.
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Claire is in her comfort zone when she's facilitating a meeting.
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Being in comfort consists in evolving in a known environment
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But are we in our comfort zone when the known,
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does not make us happy?
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Being stuck in a traffic jam every morning is a comfort zone,
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however unpleasant it may be.
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We end up resigning ourselves to it
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instead of finding a solution at all costs,
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even if it means moving or changing jobs.
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Making Excel charts can be part of the known zone.
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Some people hate it,
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but get used to it.
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They are in the middle of their comfort zone and to do things that make them unhappy.
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Sometimes we're trapped in our comfort zone.
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You know that most prisoners who have spent more than
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20 years in prison find a way to go back.
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Is it because they are really bad,
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or is it because the known in prison is easier to deal with than
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the unknown of a life in an outside world they no longer know?
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the comfort zone is wonderful.
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It's precious unless it's unpleasant and unless it becomes a prison zone
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from which one no longer dares to leave.
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Do you know people who have their driver's license
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and who by constantly letting themselves be driven,
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no longer dare to take the wheel?
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They have reduced their comfort zone and are afraid to get out of it.
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Why have we erected so many barriers and locks around our comfort zone?
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I like to imagine the good comfort zone,
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the real comfortable one,
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like a flower garden,
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and around that garden there's a strip of land a little unclear to explore,
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an area where humans can go to plant their own flowers to expand their garden.
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So of course it's the unknown,
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a little unclear.
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It creates a little apprehension to go into this unfamiliar world
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until it becomes familiar.
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The problem is that those who no longer explore outside
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their current comfort zone don't have a little apprehension.
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They have great fears that their minds carry,
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and the mind tells them,
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and we understand it a little,
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this dear mind which wishes to protect us,
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to preserve us from suffering.
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It reminds us of painful moments in the past
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and wishes to prevent us from living them again.
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It's afraid of losing what we have.
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It's afraid of losing its identity.
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It doesn't take into account that we've changed,
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that past experience has made us grow,
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that we're less fragile than it thinks.
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Our mind wants to protect us from failure.
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Because to fail in our ancestral past
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is to risk being eaten by a lion or simply
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to be rejected by the community that feeds us,
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when our mind pulls us back to stay in our so-called comfort zone,
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it is to protect us from death or rejection by the community which is a death for it.
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It's not so bad.
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you're not alone.
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You have a salary at the end of the month.
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We're both doing well.
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In 2 weeks you're on vacation.
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Hang on till then.
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it's so afraid of the future that it asks you to sacrifice your present
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and to make a lot of effort to have any chance of a better future,
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not that comfortable.
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Our mind thinks that the best way to protect ourselves is to control everything.
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It's all very well intentioned.
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Outside the comfort zone garden.
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It doesn't know what's out there.
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It's not under control.
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It's the unknown,
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and that the mind doesn't like.
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How can it protect us in an area it can't control?
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How can it save us from suffering and failure in an area it does not control?
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To go outside the zone of the known is dangerous.
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What's my future going to be like?
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The mind has found the best answer.
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make sacrifices,
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accept what is difficult and your future will be OK.
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As sometimes this is not enough,
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our mind magnifies the fears of what may be beyond the garden.
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It magnifies the fears and puts up barriers and locks.
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Don't dream or you will be disappointed.
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Your desire to set up online creative meetings,
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it's not realistic.
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It's not possible.
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It will take it upon itself to put a relative,
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on our path who will advise us
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not to go outside our comfort zone or who will recommend so many
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belts and suspenders that we won't be able to change anything concrete.
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especially if everyday life is not that uncomfortable,
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we prefer to follow its advice.
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We prefer to fall in line.
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We say to ourselves,
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I'll be changing jobs in 2 years anyway,
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so why reorganize the department?
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our product is on the decline,
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but it's still selling well.
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Let's wait a little longer before seeing what to do.
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My boss doesn't listen to me when I come up with new ideas anyway,
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it's too risky to change customer strategy today,
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and we have no visibility.
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The mind got us with its need for security.
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Under its rational airs.
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It puts locks around the garden
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which become a prison.
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Benjamin Franklin said those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a
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little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety and end up losing both.
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after I've painted you a bit of a gloomy picture,
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let's move on to the good news.
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Let's talk about creative tension.
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We have within us a deep desire to experience
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since childhood,
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a desire to discover,
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and this desire for movement is reinforced by the tension of evolution,
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We are creators.
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Each of our creations allows us to develop,
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to blossom like a tree that would grow endlessly.
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Pushing our roots and branches to grow in all directions
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who we are through our creations,
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this force of expansion of creativity is never totally muzzled by control and fear.
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It is this force that makes us want to continue to learn,
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to change professions,
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to learn an instrument,
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to enrich our point of view through reading and encounters.
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Each time we have a new experience,
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we nourish this innate desire for novelty.
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We could say that around the comfort zone,
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the known lies the learning zone.
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Each new experience is a learning experience which will make us greater,
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This is the paradox.
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We do not dare to go outside our comfort zone for fear of dying,
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for fear of making mistakes,
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or being seen badly.
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Then we block renewal initiative,
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by minimizing risk,
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holding back the flow of evolution,
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the risk of becoming a zombie,
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the risk in business of being totally overwhelmed by technological evolution.
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Many companies have failed because they have
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resisted the flow of technological evolution.
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it's going to pass back dead.
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not in our industry,
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it's always worked without.
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You don't change a winning formula,
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No matter what we do,
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we always take a risk.
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Even when we choose to do nothing,
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to scratch our own small backyard,
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to camp out in our comfort zone,
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the risk of becoming a robot,
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the risk of being overwhelmed one day or another by
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the wave of evolution that will have overcome our barriers.
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Life is movement,
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Let's enjoy our comfort zone and
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expand it permanently.
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How do we do that?
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Not by overexerting ourselves.
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It is already enough to stop building security barriers.
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stop resisting the natural ways of change and above all,
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to the desires for new things,
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to the desires for renewal that are there,
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always there within us.
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In part two of the video,
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Get out of your comfort zone,
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we will see how to practically expand your comfort zone.
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