{"id":1928,"date":"2023-01-16T00:17:01","date_gmt":"2023-01-16T00:17:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/binarywords.com\/?p=1928"},"modified":"2023-01-16T00:17:01","modified_gmt":"2023-01-16T00:17:01","slug":"incomodidad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/binarywords.com\/en\/2023\/01\/16\/incomodidad\/","title":{"rendered":"Discomfort"},"content":{"rendered":"

There have been a few moments this week when I have felt a little uncomfortable. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nothing serious, only a bit of discomfort when facing situations outside my usual day-to-day. They were somewhat tense moments (inside my head, at least), in which I didn\u00b4t know what to do or say in order to avoid making a mistake, and I felt clumsy and incompetent, a bit like a fish out of the water. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Outside my comfort zone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But also this week, interestingly, I heard an analogy that worked wonders in making me change my perspective.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Discomfort is something that we naturally tend to avoid, as we find it unpleasant, whether it\u00b4s related to a physical sensation or any other kind of uncomfortable feeling, like in certain social situations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But for example, when we\u00b4re practicing a sport, what we\u00b4re doing is essentially subjecting our body to a certain degree of discomfort during a set period of time, with the goal of developing our muscles and making them stronger. And bit by bit, with perseverance, our body gets used to it, and becomes capable of doing that exercise more and more easily and with less and less effort.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It\u00b4s very clear that if we stay lying on the couch, our muscles are not going to develop. In a similar way, we could argue that our social \"muscles\", as well as our skills and abilities in general, develop through experiences that are a bit uncomfortable, as those are the ones that move us, challenge us and encourage us to learn.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Because, let\u00b4s be realistic: when we feel a hundred percent comfortable, it\u00b4s because we\u00b4re not learning at all...<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A comfort zone is a beautiful place, but nothing ever grows there. <\/p>John Assaraf<\/cite><\/blockquote><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

I remember that before moving to Ireland, I was not used to feeling cold at all, and I found it really hard. Then as years went by, I acclimatized, and nowadays, it\u00b4s not that I enjoy being cold or anything like that, but that sensation that I used to find so uncomfortable in the past is not such a big deal now, I find it much more bearable. Why? Because at some point I decided to stop avoiding feeling cold at all costs, and I allowed myself to feel a bit of the cold and confirm that it wasn\u00b4t the end of the world and that I could still function normally. Now I believe I\u00b4ve freed myself from having to always keep an ideal temperature.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bringing the same reasoning back to the situations I mentioned at the start, thankfully now I know that feeling uncomfortable for a few minutes is not the end of the world. On the contrary: it\u00b4s an opportunity to become aware and notice (myself as well as around me), flex \"muscles\" I probably didn\u00b4t even know I had, and trust that at the end of it all, I will have learned something new. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

What about you, what makes you feel uncomfortable? And what is that discomfort trying to teach you?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Esta semana he pasado por algunos momentos en los que me he sentido un poco inc\u00f3moda. Nada grave, s\u00f3lo un poco de incomodidad ante situaciones que se sal\u00edan de mi d\u00eda a d\u00eda habitual. Han sido momentos un poco tensos (al menos dentro de mi cabeza), en los que no he sabido muy bien c\u00f3mo … Continue reading Discomfort<\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":3116429,"featured_media":1927,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","advanced_seo_description":"BinaryWords - Incomodidad \/ Discomfort","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_seo_schema_type":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_wpcom_ai_launchpad_first_post":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"\u00bfQu\u00e9 te hace sentir inc\u00f3mod@? \/ What makes you feel uncomfortable?","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_wpas_customize_per_network":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[4990,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1928","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-inspiracion-inspiration","category-general","fallback-thumbnail"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3DPtR-v6","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":9688,"url":"https:\/\/binarywords.com\/en\/2026\/09\/14\/ventanas-al-mundo\/","url_meta":{"origin":1928,"position":0},"title":"Windows to the world","author":"binarybea","date":"14\/09\/2026","format":false,"excerpt":"Esta semana o\u00ed un comentario en la radio que me pareci\u00f3 curioso: dec\u00edan algo as\u00ed como que muchos j\u00f3venes de hoy en d\u00eda consideran que se puede saber m\u00e1s de c\u00f3mo es realmente una persona por los libros que posee que por su perfil en redes sociales. \u00bfT\u00fa qu\u00e9 opinas?\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Personal"","block_context":{"text":"Personal","link":"https:\/\/binarywords.com\/en\/category\/diario-journal\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/binarywords.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/IMG_20260822_195817-e1789341732906.jpg?fit=1200%2C756&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/binarywords.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/IMG_20260822_195817-e1789341732906.jpg?fit=1200%2C756&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/binarywords.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/IMG_20260822_195817-e1789341732906.jpg?fit=1200%2C756&ssl=1&resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/binarywords.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/IMG_20260822_195817-e1789341732906.jpg?fit=1200%2C756&ssl=1&resize=700%2C400 2x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/binarywords.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/IMG_20260822_195817-e1789341732906.jpg?fit=1200%2C756&ssl=1&resize=1050%2C600 3x"},"classes":[]},{"id":9635,"url":"https:\/\/binarywords.com\/en\/2026\/08\/31\/reto-de-30-dias\/","url_meta":{"origin":1928,"position":1},"title":"30-day challenge","author":"binarybea","date":"31\/08\/2026","format":false,"excerpt":"\u00bfQu\u00e9 opinas de los retos de 30 d\u00edas? \u00bfAlguna vez has hecho alguno? 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