Day 2 - The Fear Of Judgement
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DUFrDsJDhhC/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link&igsh=NTc4MTIwNjQ2YQ== The closer you get to the edge of your comfort zone, the more outside of your known world you are. For most people, this loss of certainty and state of confusion is an uncomfortable experience. Whilst some rise to the challenges, the majority will retreat back to the known. It is a retreat back to security, comfort and certainty. The edge of comfort zones is unfamiliar territory, it is unknown, and it is scary. Comfort is familiar, and familiarity leads to certainty, one of the most powerful of human motivators. People who are strongly motivated by certainty always default to the familiar. They resist change by maintaining old patterns. Familiarity is certainty, and certainty generates feelings of reassurance, pleasure, dependability, satisfaction and knowing what is happening. It is the breakdown of familiarity and certainty that most people fear the most because it affects habitual patterns. In any process of change, it takes courage to leave the familiar and travel towards the unknown. If you have a high need for certainty in your life, there is little possibility of change taking place because, by definition, change is an uncertain activity and it destabilises the way people choose to organise their lives. Any talk of major change will be seen as a threat, an attack on the familiar, and will be met with strong resistance. Certainty is about doing the same things over and over again because it is comforting. Whilst people complain about their financial results, at least they are familiar and they can keep reproducing them. There is no mystery in comfort, there are no adventures, no challenges beyond survival, no requirements beyond the known, no variety beyond misfortune, no newness beyond consistency, no progress beyond immediate gratification, and no demands beyond the daily immersion in the 'rat race.