Epitome Anatomy: COMFORT ZONE
EPISODE SUMMARY:
"Fear and complacency should not exist in an individual because that's just when you stagnate. What's the point?"
Dive into the fascinating world of comfort zones and discover their dual nature. While these psychological spaces offer safety and familiarity, they can also hinder personal growth. Join Wish on an inspiring journey through Berlin's vibrant art scene, where stepping beyond the familiar leads to surprising insights and creativity. This episode not only prompts you to examine your own comfort zones but also challenges you to find the ideal balance between security and exploration. Perfect for anyone eager to push their limits and embrace transformative experiences.
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MAIN TOPICS:
00:00 Introduction to Comfort Zones
03:04 Personal Growth and Experimentation
04:31 The Berlin Experience
10:13 Balancing Comfort and Exploration
13:28 Conclusion and call to action
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Wish Ronquillo Peacocke (00:00.056)
We all have our preferences with everything around us, be it texture and food or color palette, or how we place our toilet paper in the holder. We tend to develop this over time. They become our creature comforts, and as human instinct goes, we tend to stay in our comfort zones to feel safe and secure. But how do we grow out of it? How brave should we be?
Let's talk about this. Welcome to Human Thesaurus Presents Epitome Anatomy. My name is Wish, a retired tech operator, indie author, cat mom, and self-aware life explorer. Epitome Anatomy is an opinion piece on the power of words and their ethos.
That I extracted from this life. Ready for the epitome of comfort zone? Let's go. Our key phrase is comfort zone. According to selectpsychology.co.uk, a comfort zone is a psychological state in which a person feels at ease, secure, and familiar.
In your comfort zone, you will feel in control of your environment while experiencing relatively low levels of stress and anxiety. It's a comfortable space when you don't need to do anything new, difficult, or scary. The chronology of the phrase comfort zone was traced to be used in the 1920s.
The literal combination of comfort zone was initially coined in a scientific and environmental context to describe the range of atmospheric temperatures in which the human body feels at ease. And in 1991, which is just kind of recent, the term was fully popularised in its modern psychological and behavioural sense.
Wish Ronquillo Peacocke (02:19.202)
By management theorist Judith Bardwick in her book Danger in a Comfort Zone. She defined it as an anxiety-neutral, steady performance state.
The thing about phases in life is when we have moments where we were reckless or trying something new during the experimentation phase. I don't know, maybe you were a teenager, maybe you were in your twenties or probably a late stage. It doesn't actually matter. I think for me, the biggest experimentation I've done mostly were in my twenties. I just did everything. I I barely said no to challenges, to career development, of what my limits are. I just felt limitless. I have full of energy and I just did all of them. I was thinking to myself, perhaps I should try all of these because there's no other moment in my life that I'm able to do so. That's how I thought about that.
I thought that if I have all of these opportunities happening to me while I'm still younger, I'm just gonna do them and see where it takes me. And looking back half of my life doing that, I didn't really have any regrets or whatsoever. I'm glad I did them. I always step out of my boundaries to see what my limits are, what what I'm capable of and what I'm good at and what I'm not good at. I tested so much of my preferences, which became my comfort zone whenever I need to find peace in myself. And that is the most fulfilling thing that I could do for myself. I'm talking about this right now because I felt
Wish Ronquillo Peacocke (04:31.512)
thrown off the bus because of a new boundary or of a new awakening for me. I was just in Berlin over a week ago. I hang out with one of my friends that I haven't seen in a long time. Hello, Coco. She I interviewed her during my third season of Human Thesaurus. And so
Hanging out with her, we went to a lot of art gallery hopping, and we went to an art museum, and we saw the complexities of artistry of different types of art in Berlin. When you think of Berlin, they're very much open, especially sexually, and there's just a sexual revolution there, and there are more radical.
artists that you feel that they don't have any limits to where they could take their art and their vision and their capabilities and talents and all of their skills put in one city, which is wonderful. But I never really knew what to expect going to Berlin for the first time. And hanging out with Coco, this was a great opportunity for me to explore what she sees every day in
The Berlin lifestyle, if you may, and seeing really like what's the vision here? What are the artists doing here? How open are they? And boom, lo and behold, I was put so much out of my comfort zone because I've seen now more than ever before that I do have preferences. We all have tastes and preferences when it comes to art. I'm the type of a person that I love to
Just keep on learning, even though it's not my preference. And there are things that we've seen at the art museum, at the art galleries that I thought to myself, god, this is bad. Or this is so bad, it's so good. The words that I describe are gallery hopping and seeing some of the exhibitions. I told Coco, quote unquote, this is the most
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uncanny, unhinged, cringe, odd, weirdest, worst exhibitions I've ever seen in my life. It was earth-shattering in a way, because I'm actually not negative about saying that. The descriptions that I used probably in eyes of the art critic or the art critic readers would see it as
I'm bringing these artists down, but I'm not. It was so out of my comfort zone and out of context in my world at present that it pushed me somewhere else. It pushed me to a different world that I probably know that exists, but it was so confronting that.
The only explanation I could give are those words. It was really so unhinged and bad. But whenever I say bad, it's bad in a good way. Because these are the new feelings and emotions that I've never had before. And I think I'm not even explaining it enough. I'm not explaining it this clearly because even for me.
Every day I'm still deciphering what is the mixture of this amazement that I have, but at the same time I was a little bit appalled with some of those art. And you may be wondering what these arts are. I'm not gonna call them out because I'm focusing on the experience, the collective experience. Some of these artworks are funny, some of these artworks don't.
didn't really make any sense that when it didn't make any sense, that's the sense of those artworks. Some of them are just so cringe that probably in the end I thought that wow these artists are so brilliant because they were given so much space to put on their shelves.
Wish Ronquillo Peacocke (09:15.63)
And probably they wanted these emotions, these opposing emotions to come through. And that's what I'm feeling. It's really beyond what I understood about art. This is what art is about. This is why art excites me. And would I go back there? Probably because I wanted to see if I still have the same evocation about it.
when I'm trying to write this new subject on on this episode, how am I gonna describe this? What will be the keyword or the key phrase where I could talk about this? So I need to kind of dissect what would be the key element or the key value of my experience in Berlin. And this is really the comfort zone. I've been pushed and it
really threw me off. That was an amazing effect when you're open to the world. You know, when you're open-minded, when you try to open your mind to different sets of ideas and different school of thoughts and different opinions. You know, whatever you can tolerate. And when I say whatever you can tolerate, you're going back again to your comfort zone. At least in my life, this is my mindset. As soon as I get
Comfortable in my life. There's a a part of me that still panics like, why is everything so good? Probably something bad is about to come. But I try to change that throughout time in practice. As soon as I get comfortable in life, I know that another matter, another wave, or another adventure would come. But I use it not to
Feel stressed or anxious is because I take it for growth. I want to manifest the energy when things are getting comfortable for me. Something may come along to push my boundaries again so that I would keep on growing. Comfort zone means we think that we're in control. This is my comfort level, this is my area, this is what I know.
Wish Ronquillo Peacocke (11:34.792)
And I will be less stressed and less anxious when I'm in my comfortable zone. Therefore, I'm not gonna step out of it. In my case, what pushes me to do things is I'm more afraid to feel stupid or inadequate, and I owe it to myself to keep trying and to keep growing. I'm in this humble moment.
From the time that I lost the career that I really, really loved and slowly started to retire, then I needed to find my path on how to keep on growing in life. You know, I'm busier than ever before. I have more time to explore. I have more time to learn the things that I want. And now I'm coming to learn things that I
probably never thought of. Berlin, I love you in your own weird manner. It's so amazing. I am in awe. I was pushed out of my comfort zone and now I can't stop thinking about it. It's phenomenal. You should visit. And this is not an ad towards Berlin, but all I'm saying is
That if you can, I don't think that you stay in your comfort zone all the time. Yes, there are things, there are parts of our comfort zone that we need to keep and make it sacred if we find peace in them. But at the same time, there should be a balance between your comfort zone and stepping out of it to grow. Fear and complacency.
Should not exist in an individual because that's just when you stagnate. What's the point? We are lucky that we're breathing and we have this life. Yes, I know we all have different access to different things, but it doesn't matter. Thinking is for free. Sitting in a park and thinking is free. Walking outside and having some thoughts.
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Is free. There are different moments in our lives that sometimes life just knows when we're so complacent that it pushes us somewhere. That's a blessing more than a curse. What do you think about your comfort zone? What's your limit, or where are your boundaries? Do you find your comfort zone limiting or just enough to keep your peace? What would it take to get?
Out of your comfort zone. Is it a positive or a negative thing whenever you think about that? Please comment. I'd love to hear from you. and I also have a direct message now via text or voicemail on top of each of my episode summary wherever you get your podcast, so check it out. Until next time, ciao.
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Comment, like, subscribe, and share wherever you listen to podcasts. You can also visit humanthesaurus.co. That's where my show notes are with the transcripts and other elements of the show. Epitome Anatomy is produced by me and Jeremiah Ronquillo. Music by Ketsa UK. All rights reserved by Wishblizz Media. Thank you, and see you in the next episode.
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