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ng that you don’t understand. This forces you to understand concepts thoroughly.Moreover, take a vow to use only simple words to teach. No jargon. Teach like you would teach a 5-year-old. If you can make a 5-year-old understand something, you can be sure you know the topic.Through learning for the sole purpose of teaching, you have subconsciously gotten out of your comfort zone.<h2 id="f3a8">Work with people better than you.</h2>I’m a web developer.Before joining my current company, I was working on web development alone. Nothing to hold me accountable, just me and the love of building stuff.The love part drives you to work but doesn’t necessarily force you to get better. An often-told phrase in the web development community is “Stop building to-do lists.”To-do lists aren’t useless projects. In fact, it is an essential project for any beginner. However, what developers usually do is once they’ve built something significant, like a working to-do list app, they tend to start building variants of it like a notes app, an event listing app, and so on.You end up stagnating at that level. This is true for any craft.The most effective solution for this problem is working with people better than you. I am a junior developer at my company. I learn from the experience and knowledge of people who’ve been doing it professionally for years.They force you to become better a

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nd start performing at their level. They provide the necessary accountability that drags you out of your comfort zone. They also act as a mentor to you when you get stuck.<h2 id="640d">Schedule discomfort</h2>Let’s face it.You won’t hop over your comfort zone in one shot and never look back. It has to be a regular activity in your life.Doing uncomfortable work is annoying as it is. If you add uncertainty to it, it becomes a nightmare. So, you need to systemize discomfort and remove the unnecessary thinking that usually accompanies it.Open your calendar and choose a time of day when you know you have high energy because you need it.Take 30 minutes of this time and name it “Discomfort time.” 30 minutes because it is the bare minimum to accomplish anything tangible.Uncomfortable work is anything that results in an increase in skill or knowledge.<ul><li>Make a list of all your possible areas of improvement.</li><li>Choose one area from this and set a short-term goal (1 month).</li><li>Work on it every day in the scheduled “discomfort time.”</li></ul>Once you achieve the short-term goal you set for yourself, you can either set another one in the same skill or, if you want, choose another area and start working on it.Let me know in the comments how you are dragging yourself out of your comfort zone!Thanks for reading. I will catch you in the next one!</article></body>

3 Foolproof Methods That Will Drag You Out Of Your Comfort Zone

Here is how to defeat discomfort

Comfort is dangerous.

It makes you complacent, lazy, and resistant to change. These are also the exact reasons why getting out of your comfort zone is an arduous task. Hence, the most effective way to leave your comfort zone behind is to force yourself out of it.

Here are three methods that will force you to leave your comfort zone.

Teach

Learning is uncomfortable.

It requires undivided attention for long periods to master the fundamentals. More often than not, we let ourselves off easy. This means you neglect a lot of details when studying.

As you try to learn more complex topics, it’s crucial to have your fundamentals locked in. Going back and learning the subject from scratch again? Oof. It’s tiring to even talk about it. So, the goal should be to do it right the first time.

Here is how you can do that.

You make a contract with someone agreeing to teach them the topic. You cannot teach someone something that you don’t understand. This forces you to understand concepts thoroughly.

Moreover, take a vow to use only simple words to teach. No jargon. Teach like you would teach a 5-year-old. If you can make a 5-year-old understand something, you can be sure you know the topic.

Through learning for the sole purpose of teaching, you have subconsciously gotten out of your comfort zone.

Work with people better than you.

I’m a web developer.

Before joining my current company, I was working on web development alone. Nothing to hold me accountable, just me and the love of building stuff.

The love part drives you to work but doesn’t necessarily force you to get better. An often-told phrase in the web development community is “Stop building to-do lists.”

To-do lists aren’t useless projects. In fact, it is an essential project for any beginner. However, what developers usually do is once they’ve built something significant, like a working to-do list app, they tend to start building variants of it like a notes app, an event listing app, and so on.

You end up stagnating at that level. This is true for any craft.

The most effective solution for this problem is working with people better than you. I am a junior developer at my company. I learn from the experience and knowledge of people who’ve been doing it professionally for years.

They force you to become better and start performing at their level. They provide the necessary accountability that drags you out of your comfort zone. They also act as a mentor to you when you get stuck.

Schedule discomfort

Let’s face it.

You won’t hop over your comfort zone in one shot and never look back. It has to be a regular activity in your life.

Doing uncomfortable work is annoying as it is. If you add uncertainty to it, it becomes a nightmare. So, you need to systemize discomfort and remove the unnecessary thinking that usually accompanies it.

Open your calendar and choose a time of day when you know you have high energy because you need it.

Take 30 minutes of this time and name it “Discomfort time.” 30 minutes because it is the bare minimum to accomplish anything tangible.

Uncomfortable work is anything that results in an increase in skill or knowledge.

Make a list of all your possible areas of improvement.
Choose one area from this and set a short-term goal (1 month).
Work on it every day in the scheduled “discomfort time.”

Once you achieve the short-term goal you set for yourself, you can either set another one in the same skill or, if you want, choose another area and start working on it.

Let me know in the comments how you are dragging yourself out of your comfort zone!

Thanks for reading. I will catch you in the next one!