From the course: Beating Procrastination
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Push past your social comfort zone
From the course: Beating Procrastination
Push past your social comfort zone
- [Host] You've got a tool called "the heroism tool" in your book. What's this about? - [Guest] All right, yeah. This- this tool is from Professor Philip Zimbardo, who is famous about his Stanford prison experiment, still slightly a controversial one. And when I met Zimbardo for the first time, I asked him what is his personal tip for fighting procrastination? And he did something that was quite strange to me. He took my black marker and he put a big black dot on his forehead. And I was like, "What?" (guest chuckling) And Zimbardo told me that if you put a black big dot on your forehead and you go, for example, shopping, or you go by bus somewhere, you- you start to get used to strange feelings that you have that you are different. And you- you are then able to overcome your social comfort zone. And he really described me that we have two kinds of comfort zone. First is physical one. It's much more…