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Glen Gould uses an ice cube metaphor to explain what happens when you leave your comfort zone. Once it melts, it can't go back to being solid ice, so you have to keep growing instead of reverting to who you were.
Glen Gould uses an ice cube metaphor to explain what happens when you leave your comfort zone. Once it melts, it can't go back to being solid ice, so you have to keep growing instead of reverting to who you were.
Imagine this for a second. You're this ice cube. That's stupid. You're not an ice cube, but the ice cube's a good example. Here's an ice cube and it's gotten out of its freezer and it's in a new place with new ideas and new experiences and it's starting to change. Maybe you could say it's heating up a little bit. Maybe you could say that it's just changing. It doesn't matter. Things will change once we get out of the place we're most familiar with. The place we're most comfortable with. So the ice cubes left the freezer. You perhaps have left your comfort zone, and here you are now on this nice white paper towel— picture not there, but you get the idea— and things are starting to change. Things are getting hot. You're starting to get uncomfortable. Unfortunately, what most people do is they run back to the freezer. To be back with all their freezer friends. We do that because we mistakenly think that we can go back to being what we were before we left our comfort zone. But unfortunately, no matter what we do, we leave something behind. So my question for you today is, when you leave the comfort of your comfort zone, when you leave your freezer, little ice cube, Are you really willing to go back to being something less than you were? Because you left something behind when you left the freezer. Don't be less than you are. Move on forward and become more than you were.
