🔮The Illusion of Comfort

Welcome to WorkLife Wednesday, where we take a look into best-practice leadership methods to make your WorkLife awesome.

Good morning. Over the past several months of navigating unemployment, I've journaled extensively, uncovering soul-searching truths that many often overlook due to lack of time. I've discovered that societal expectations tend to confine our mindset and limit our happiness. Today, I'll reveal the most pervasive self-imposed illusion in our society and how we can reframe our perspective.

Presented by The Rundown AI

Stay up-to-date with AI.

The Rundown is the world’s fastest-growing AI newsletter, with over 500,000+ readers staying up-to-date with the latest AI news and learning how to apply it.

Our research team spends all day learning what’s new in AI, then distills the most important developments into one free email every morning.

Sign up with one click.

🛏️Comfort.

Comfort is an illusion. We keep comfort in the back of our mind throughout every task. It takes shape in many forms: financial, physical, mental, etc. We are always striving toward one of these types of comfort. Unsurprisingly, through unemployment I’ve realized how damaging comfort can be. Like a tamed tiger let loose in the wild, we lose our survival skills when life gets too comfortable.

Our purpose is not to find comfort. I realize there’s loads of data that suggests otherwise, but I find that our ostensible search for comfort is an illusion. Consider Alexander Graham Bell's invention of the telephone in 1876, designed to connect friends from the comfort of a phone booth. He likely never envisioned that, 150 years later, Steve Jobs would afford us the same convenience with a device in our pocket. While striving for a comfortable life is natural, our innate drive to continually improve every aspect of life means we never truly arrive at a final state of comfort.

The realization that our aim shouldn't be comfort can be daunting—perhaps even unsettling. Yet, within this discomfort, there lies a tremendous potential for growth. Embrace that feeling. Cultivate curiosity, engage with strangers, take chances in your personal and professional life, and assert your needs and desires. Be curious, talk to a stranger in public, ask that girl out… or… break up with her, tell your boss you want that promotion/raise, tell the waiter you ordered the steak not the fish. Stepping out of your comfort zone is not just about taking risks; it's about fostering the mindset necessary to achieve what you truly want from life.

Dare to do the uncomfortable.

_{Written by Bailey Hepler}

ASK BAILEY

Yep, I’m now taking questions! Respond to this email with an office dilemma and I will include it in next week’s newsletter with my thoughts 🙂

REFERRAL PROGRAM

Thanks for readin’! As you all know, One Revere is a free publication, so we just ask that You share your referral link with a friend today to keep the Revere Family growing 📈