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Why You Need to Get Uncomfortable to Grow

May 08, 2023
The image is a graphical illustration with a monochromatic portrait of George Addair, set against a yellow background. Overlaid on the image is a quote attributed to Addair, which reads:

 

Why You Need to Get Uncomfortable to Grow

April 8th, 2023, By Brett Levine, MD

 

When I play tennis, I have 2 options.

I can play with players that are at my level or I am better than and I give myself confidence and it’s less stressful and easier.

Or 

I can play with players that are better than me where it is uncomfortable and more difficult, but my game improves as I learn from playing with them.

 

From tennis, I am reminded that I don’t get better by playing players worse than me.

I don’t grow when I am comfortable.

Comfort is the enemy of progress.

I grow from the discomfort of stretching myself.

 

That is what I did in high school to get into college.

In college to get into med school.

In med school to get into residency.

In practice to grow my solo private practice.

With my partner when we merged private practices to form our group.

 

That’s what we do 

when we nervously ask someone out who becomes our spouse.

Or we give our first talk.

Or we push ourselves on an Ironman or marathon.

 

But this isn’t only about physical fitness, sports, and school.

 

I stepped out of my comfort zone over and over again…

When I wrote my first book, How to Join, Buy or Merge a Physician’s Practice.

When I joined my mastermind group, Gobundance, as the first doctor in a real estate mastermind.

When I created BOOMM to share what has helped me change from the graduating resident to the entrepreneur I have become.

 

 

All were incredibly uncomfortable.

On all those new starts, I felt like the Black Sheep amongst everyone who had more in common.

I felt out of place.

I wasn’t sure what to expect or how to win.

They weren’t places I should have been based on who I was.

But they were places I chose to be based on who I wanted to be.

 

 

That discomfort signaled a place where I was not yet.

Discomfort helps us achieve our goals.

Discomfort is a sign of potential growth.

Discomfort was worth the fear and risk because it represented a future that I wanted to lean into.

Discomfort is how I step into the Future Me 

as I think, act and live in proximity to people who are where I want to be someday.

Who are how I want to be in my future.

 

 

Whether in Tennis.  Medicine.  Social settings. Or Financial Freedom… 

I have found the more I embrace discomfort,

The more I step into change.

This is how transformation occurs.

This is how I broke out of my medical mindset.

To expand my life.

Who do you want to become?

Are you ready to be uncomfortable?

 

 

 

 

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