Such reinforcements are like prison bars that most of us are not even aware of. We’re so completely indoctrinated, so utterly pre-programmed, that we don’t even know that we don’t know that we’ve been conditioned to blindly believe in something simply because enough people convinced us it was true.
The problem with reinforced comfort zones is that there is no growth. A regular comfort zone, you can stretch. A reinforced comfort zone, you’re usually not even aware it needs to be stretched. A regular comfort zone allows for trial and error, it allows for questioning, and so there is at least potential for self-improvement and self-overcoming. But a reinforced comfort zone does not allow for trial and error. It doesn’t allow for “blasphemous” questioning, because it is taken for granted as already perfect or “simply the way it is.”
Regular comfort zones can be
healthy, giving us a safe haven, a place where we can heal and lick our
wounds. But reinforced comfort zones are unnecessary safety nets based
upon fear (of God, the Unknown, Death) placation, and self-pity. It’s a
place where cognitive dissonance rules and any notion of attempting to
think outside the box is met with: You simply need to have faith in the
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