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Leading A Spiritual Life

of work becomes their comfort zone and they do not
feel inclined to move out of it. But again, this is purely a
psychological state, and there is no real reason for them
to have this feeling.
Your comfort zone may seem comfortable to you, but
it is only a result of your way of thinking. If you change
your conditioned thinking, every ‘zone’ will become a
comfort zone for you.

The so-called comfort zone is a challenge-free zone.
Within it, there is apparently peace, but because of the
absence of challenges, you cease to have new experiences.
Thus you are unable to develop intellectually or engage
in creative thinking. There is the danger in this state
of affairs of your becoming a victim of intellectual
dwarfism.
On the contrary, if you give no importance to being
in a comfort zone and are prepared to enter every new
zone, the result will be that you will have new experiences
every time and shall have to face different challenges
at every turn. By facing these new situations, you will
develop the ability to think creatively.

A comfort zone may have everything, but staying in
it cannot stimulate intellectual development. Living
in a comfort zone does not give you the ability to face
challenges. Although this is the state of affairs at your
workplace, its effects will manifest themselves even on
the home front and in other domains too. Initially, you
will fail to creatively solve problems at your job, but later
you will also fail to creatively manage the other affairs
of your life.

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