Why “fitting in” is not good?

In: insight

28 Jun 2009

When we think about good advices we could give to people to fit in their environments, we always think of things to do when joining a new community for example how to fit in a new school, work place or even a new city. But the truth is that everyone ends up doing something in these new places. If you get a lot of friends or not, time will pass and you will be a part of the students of that new school, a worker in that workplace or a citizen of that city.

The truth is that everyone, giving any situation will blend to be part of a group, and our nature tells us we fit in as fast as possible.

This human nature could be explained as a search for a comfort zone: an ideal situation where we will have enough confidence to actually be ourselves. The problem is that this place doesn’t exist if we are trying to fit in. We have to create this situation ourselves.

There are two ways to be closer to that comfort zone:

  1. Getting enough confidence in a way where any situation is enough.
  2. Meeting a lot of people.

So instead of trying to fit in your environment, we should all(as a community) be searching for other environments while training ourselves to be better communicators and to accept emotional failures.

So, what are you waiting?

2 Responses to Why “fitting in” is not good?

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Octavio Cisneros

October 29th, 2009 at 6:32 pm

Can you?

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Octavio Cisneros

October 29th, 2009 at 6:34 pm

Hi guys, I work at Google Mexico and I want to send you an invitation to a next week event we´ll have at the offices. Please send me your phone number, your e-mail address. Best.

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