THE COMFORT ZONE

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. A comfort zone is only a beautiful name for a non-creative zone. The Scottish writer Samuel Smiles has 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. 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. o Culture of Violence The greatest disadvantage of the culture of violence is that those who engage in it begin to live on the defensive—to the extent that they believe that they are living under siege. A mindset of this kind hampers creative thinking and leads to stagnation. This loss is so huge that there is no justification for continuing to perpetrate violence, even for a single moment.