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Living in the Comfort Zone

A comfort zone is only a beautiful name for a non-
creative zone. When a bird lives in its cage, it may prove
to be a comfort zone for it, but because of not putting
its wings to use, it becomes lifeless.
The Scottish writer Samuel Smiles has rightly said in
his book Self-Help: ‘It is not ease but effort, not facility
but difficulty, that makes man.’ Difficulties make a
person energetic. Where there is no difficulty, a person
gradually ends up becoming dull.

It is not good, however, to jump out of your comfort
zone simply out of ambition. This may prove to be a
misadventure. But if circumstances require a change,
do not be reluctant to accept it. Rather, admit it as a
circumstantial gift. No misadventure is good, but facing
changes with courage and wisdom inevitably pays off.
A comfort zone is a self-created world. You create this
world under the influence of your emotions and not
by applying your rational faculty. It is a fact that all the
successes of history are the outcome not of emotion but
of reason.

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