Fear Of Transition

What is that we love most is our life, we love our coziness. It is our comfort zone, isn’t it?We do not want to bust the bubble of comfort zone and we get into the bigger bubble of fear, anything outside of comfort zone is unknown and therefore we get fear. Human brain designed to process the fear or threat very fast and therefore fear is an important feeling.

We do love our current job and we are doing fine. Still there is a pressure to quit this one and move on. The reason can be anything like your friend has better salary or you did not get promotion or its very political in current team etc. For some, it’s just time to move to next level or move to new career path.

Have you observed yourself when you are sitting with peace and relaxing? In couple of minutes, you will like to do something, unless you are addicted to cell phones. Learning is exactly like that. Learning is the best food for the brain. Human being is fundamentally a seeker and he always goes on seeking something. Our brain is wired to keep exploring, learning and discovering something. We always like curiosity, when this learning stops our brain is no more curious and we start getting exhausted with time.

The learning can be about majorly three areas in corporate life :

Leadership - It can be a desire to be a leader, it can be to grow further in the career ladder.

Technical – Curious nature of brain will always provoke an individual to shift to something new and its always attractive.

Startups – you just want to reset everything and begin from zero using all the experience and synergy you have.

 There is an important factor, the likability. Likability is unavoidable human behaviour. There are unconscious biases we have within all of us which then end up being picking our favorites and then there is a group within another. It’s is hard to understand and difficult to crack it. As human we have freedom to like what we like and no one can take that away. I feel just be yourself and be the best version of yourself. If does not get you what you want to go ahead then you are in a wrong group and must look for other job.

Anything what a human being is doing, he gets stuck to one thing and that is fear. When you move a job or want to move a job these are the fears we get into.

Fear of unknown - Human beings are much conscious to unknown. A new job brings the new work, new colleagues, new culture. Just like our new pair of jeans, we are excited to buy it but we are uncomfortable when we wear it for the first time.

Fear with building new relationships/Network - Emotionally we want to hold on people. New relationships bring new learning about people.

Fear of learning new things - However, we like learning but learning new things are going to take time and fitting into new technologies and products are difficult task considering the immense depth it has.

As shown in figure, when one of the wheels gets stuck at work, we become restless and then we need a change in job.

 Transitions are part of life. When we are moving from one place to other it does bring challenges. It is never going to be easy and we have to do it. Moving out of our comfort zone is brave move and will reap its benefits, will take you to growth. When things are clear in mind and you are self- inspired and self-motivated, you become unstoppable.