Comfort Zone or Pseudo-Comfort Zone | Episode 022           The lobster shell does not grow. But the lobsters themselves grow relatively fast in their first year. The only way for lobsters to grow is by discarding their former shell when it is too small for them. Changing the body cover is called molting. Young lobsters shed several times a year, and then usually once a year.         The lobster is highly vulnerable without a hard shell, and the primary way to survive is by hiding under a rock until its new shell hardens. And so on until the next time it grows up enough to throw away the old shell.         The primary pressure for the lobster to change its shell is the significant discomfort of tightening. This discomfort encourages change and growth.         There is no growth without change.         This growth process in lobsters is very similar to the growth process in humans. At one point, the old shell gets tight. Getting out of it is dangerous. But overcoming fears and throwing away the old shell is the only way to grow for lobsters physically. For humans mentally and emotionally.          The immediate pain of the tight shell can become a springboard for change. As long as the pain of the old is less than the pain of the unknown, the change will not happen naturally. Here, paradoxically, the present's inconveniences have turned into a kind of pseudo-comfort zone.         People confuse the real comfort zone in which they feel excellent, and their daily work is a source of joy and energy with the pseudo-comfort zone, where they do not work but endure their work. People delude themselves that things are okay. And so 10, 20, 30 years fade away in the pseudo-comfort zone.         If you are in a real comfort zone where things can't get any better, why would you want to get out of it? Is it because of the poster in your conference room that shows that "magic happens outside the comfort zone"? The real magic happens on the edge of the comfort zone, not entirely out of it. Entirely outside of it, there are the most vocal voices of doubt and fear, which create trauma, not growth.         Stay in the comfort zone with healthy growth, flow, and impatience for the next day. But do not stay in the zone of pseudo-comfort, where there are self-delusion and self-created suffering. ---Book "Cold Shower for Managers: Empower and Inspire Your Team with Your Humility and Accountability  by Plamen Petrov on Amazon - https://amzn.to/2Ka23CU---Book "Park Your Ego: Face Your Bullsh*t and Own It" by Plamen Petrov on Amazon - https://amzn.to/38VW3He