Getting out of your comfort zone– part 1 Tutorial

Curious about why stepping out of your comfort zone is essential? In "Getting Out of Your Comfort Zone – Part 1," discover the significance of comfort zones, the fears that trap us, and how to harness the benefits of exploration. This engaging video will motivate you to break free from stagnation and embrace growth. Join us on this journey toward agility and change!

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In this video entitled Getting Out of your Comfort Zone,

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Part one,

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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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Finally,

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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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comfort.

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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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An open mind,

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a relaxed body.

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Being in your comfort zone is not a bad thing,

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far from it.

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Personally,

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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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familiar.

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But are we in our comfort zone when the known,

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the mastered,

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the familiar,

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the habit

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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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In short,

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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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uncharted land,

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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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Don't go,

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don't go,

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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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Don't go there.

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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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Don't go.

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It's too risky.

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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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Why?

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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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Stay here.

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It's not so bad.

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Look,

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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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Subway,

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work,

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eat,

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sleep.

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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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In short,

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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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the uncertain,

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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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Work hard,

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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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friend,

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or a colleague

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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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And often,

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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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In any case,

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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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so why insist?

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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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Well,

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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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to move,

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to move again,

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to learn,

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and this desire for movement is reinforced by the tension of evolution,

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of expansion.

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We are creators.

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Each of our creations allows us to develop,

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to grow,

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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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to discover

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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 travel,

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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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more complete,

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more alive.

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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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innovation,

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movement,

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in short,

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we block life.

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In fact,

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by minimizing risk,

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holding back the flow of evolution,

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we take

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more risk,

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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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Internet?

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No,

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it's a fad,

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it's going to pass back dead.

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Digital,

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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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bang,

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death.

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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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we take a risk,

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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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organic growth.

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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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In short,

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stop resisting the natural ways of change and above all,

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listen

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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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