by Gilda Bonanno www.gildabonanno.com
Success Inspiration Speaker: Break Out of Your Comfort Zone to Live a More Purposeful Life
6 minutes, 10 seconds
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For more on Daniel Coyle,
including The Little Book of
Talent and his blog, visit his website http://thetalentcode.com/
For my other blog posts inspired by Daniel Coyle, see:
Gilda Bonanno's blog www.gildabonanno.blogspot.com
Several of my recent blog posts have
been inspired by Daniel Coyle’s new book, The
Little Book of Talent: 52 Tips for Improving Your Skills, which includes
simple, practical tips based on examples and research from the world’s greatest
talent hotbeds. He is the New York Times best-selling author of The Talent Code.
Tip #13 –
Find the Sweet Spot is an essential part of learning new
skills. Coyle suggests that you "stretch
yourself slightly beyond your current ability, spending time in the zone of
difficulty called the sweet spot."
The sweet spot is right outside of
your comfort zone, which I’ve written about often. We build our comfort zone over time,
constructing it out of habits, routines and thought patterns that allow us to
deal with reality.
The problem is that too often, fear
keeps us trapped in our comfort zone and prevents us from breaking through it
to change, learn and grow.
Once you move beyond your comfort zone
and into your sweet spot, Coyle suggests you reach into that sweet spot often,
for deep practice, in order to improve your skills.
And this also applies to public speaking as
a skill. Whether you define your public
speaking comfort zone as “I’m not great at public speaking, but I’ll never get
any better,” or “I guess I’m good enough at public speaking, but not as good as
I could be,” getting stuck in that comfort zone will prevent you from stretching
beyond it into that sweet spot where you can take your skills to the next
level.
Yes, breaking out of your comfort
zone and finding your sweet spot means that you have to face your fear of
failure and deal with the discomfort of change, but it will be worth it.
Click on the video below for “Break
Out of Your Comfort Zone to Live a Move Purposeful Life,” an excerpt from a keynote
speech I delivered at a conference for the Project Management Institute, which
explains how breaking out of your comfort zone can apply to different aspects
of your life
For my other blog posts inspired by Daniel Coyle, see:
- Exaggerate to Practice Your Body Language
- Practice Your Body Language by Miming It
- 3 Ways to Use Images in Your Presentations, Inspired by Daniel Coyle, Marjory Abrams & Garr Reynolds
- "Make Positive Reaches"
Gilda Bonanno's blog www.gildabonanno.blogspot.com