THE ADVICE

This is where Ray introduces us to the concept of the ‘Fear Zone’. Everyone lives in the ‘Comfort Zone’ really well, but there’s a sort of moat around that ‘Comfort Zone’, adequately called the ‘Fear Zone’. Terrifying for most human beings. Outside the ‘Fear Zone’, comes the ‘Learning Zone’ and the ‘Growth Zone’. His advice is that you have to find ways to press yourself into positions where you are extremely uncomfortable. This is the ‘Fear Zone’. You don’t want to break, but almost everyone can handle way more than they think they can. Like marathon training. When you find those really hard situations, where you don’t know if you can do it or figure it out, that’s the stuff you say “yes” to.

He realized that going through his pattern of saying “yes” to things that required him to go through that ‘Fear Zone’, time after time again, allows him to continue going through future ‘Fear Zones’ with ease.