Distance MBA: Transitioning from Comfort Zone to Growth Zone

Everyone wants to be successful in life, isn’t it? And secondly all our efforts are to get more and more comfort in our life. We want to live with peace. If you read stories about successful people, you would notice that everyone, without an exception, has left their comfort zone to conquer new horizons.
Are success and comfort opposites of each other?

Learning Zone Model

Our regular environment of family, office, friends, location where we live are all familiar to us and we are comfortable dealing with the same every day. We start becoming complacent as comfort grows. Sometimes we are bored to death and still continue doing the same things again and again. Why? Because we hesitate to try new things, to step out of our comfort zone.

This human psychology is well explained by a Learning Zone Model developed by the German adventure pedagogue Tom Senninger. The model shows three concentric circle each representing a zone with a peculiar characteristics. Humans generally demonstrate a typical behavioral responses when they are in these zones.

Comfort zone is the safe place and there are no risks. To learn something new, one needs to step out of comfort zone and start exploring. Learning zone is where we can learn new things and grow. You get into “unknown” territory and make it “known” to you, thus expanding you comfort zone. Beyond learning zone, there is another zone called Panic zone. If you enter this, only fear prevails and learning stops. One need to avoid entering into this.

Coming out of comfort zone to pursue distance MBA

You are reading this article means you have decided to explore something new like distance MBA program to come out of your comfort zone. Congratulations! You are absolutely on the right track to grow to the next level of your potential.

Let us go into the learning zone theory in more details to understand how it can help you achieve your dream. Let us try to elaborate more on comfort zone and learning zone boundaries. New zones are added as shown in the following diagram.

When you step out of your comfort zone for the first time, there is fear in your mind. You have no confidence. You may tend to look at excuses are run away from the situation and to return to your comfort zone.

Why this happens? This is because the way our brain functions. When you have mastered few things which you perform daily, brain does not have to exert itself while doing the routine tasks. There is a part in the brain called Basal ganglia which takes care of it. However, when you learn a completely new thing, other part of the brain called pre-frontal cortex come into play. All the heavy and complex processing to understand a new thing comes on this pre-frontal cortex. As this part of the brain has limited resources, it has to exert itself. Hence you feel uncomfortable while encountering the situation for the first time.

All things are difficult before they become easy!

If you decide and continue doing the new thing, it starts becoming familiar and easy. Here one needs support and guidance.

Let us take your case. As you have decided to pursue the next step in your career, hundreds of questions like will I be able to make it? Will I get enough opportunities? Will I be able to cope up with this study along with my job? keep on flooding your mind.

To take you out of this fear zone, some trusted friend, guide is needed who can help you navigate this uncertainty. He/She can help you understand the Nitty-gritties of successfully completing distance MBA of your choice. If you get his guidance, you know what? You are pushed to the learning zone.

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Now you have decided to plunge into unknown and taken the first step. There are chances that you may go back to your comfort zone due to comments from people, your own excuses etc. What will help you to stay clear is your goal. If you are determined why you want to pursue distance MBA course, no one or any failure in the path can distract and derail you.

Your goal is very powerful. It can help you overcome all your fears and do the best out of the resources available when you are in the learning zone. Once you start believing yourself, you can easily transition to growth zone. Here newer challenges and learning opportunities are waiting for you.

Distance MBA: lifelong Learning

You must be aware that currently job environment is unpredictable. Experts are saying that we know very less about future jobs. However, one thing we know about the future and that is certain. We need a skills to learn new things and desire to learn on continuous basis.

Many future theorist say that come 2050, everyone may have to start a fresh career every 10 years. Does it sound daunting? Do not worry. You have already embarked your journey to achieve your dream by taking a solid first step by choosing a distance MBA program. We are sure you will achieve it and we are with you!