This is a YouTube video titled "Marie Forleo on Shifting Out of Fear" containing a recorded conversation from August 6, 2018, between Ask AI Mark and Marie Forleo. The discussion focuses on overcoming fear, moving out of comfort zones into growth zones, and personal approaches to managing change and creativity.
How do you get people to shift out of that fear that keeps them in their comfort zone?
Yes. So I like to reframe comfort zone. Um, you know, well, the comfort zone is like that gets smaller and smaller, I think, as we advance in age. And I like to think about helping people get into the growth zone, into this place where all the growth happens in life. And if anyone's ever worked out, then you know this to be true. You go to the gym, you start lifting those weights or doing whatever exercise. It's not comfortable. There's a little pain, right?
Yeah.
You're sore.
I started doing push-ups and my chest.
Hurt for like two weeks. Yes. I was like, it's not that great, but you do also feel like you're growing. You feel that things are changing. And if we can think about getting out of our comfort zone and moving into the growth zone, which is where all the magic happens in life, it just takes small steps. You know, some people are built Mark in a way where they have to kind of burn the bridges behind them. So their DNA is such that if they have a job that they don't like, Right? They need to quit and have the pressure on to find something else. That's how they thrive. I am not built like that. I'm a much more conservative person.
Keep your waitress job while you're building your business.
I do. I like to have that cash flow coming in because I discovered for myself that my creativity shrivels up if I am under financial duress.
You're in survival mode.
If I am. But if I'm bartending, waiting tables, I can work seven days a week because I am okay. with the roof over my head, paying the rent, and then I can take those couple of hours and feel great about my discovery process, the work I'm doing. And I, you know, I like to do it slow and steady. So I think it's important for people to realize what kind of person they are. Look in your past, track how you actually Spar explosive growth for yourself, and then whatever it is, a small step or a big step, you gotta do it.
