Examine your comfort zone
In this exercise, you'll look at some situations and determine whether something is in your comfort zone.
Review the following tasks
Review the following prompts. For each one, decide whether it's inside your comfort zone, outside your comfort zone, or if you feel neutral about it.
| Task | Inside | Outside | Neutral |
|---|---|---|---|
| Onboarding to a new team or supervisor | |||
| Pitching an idea to a group | |||
| Trying something new for the first time | |||
| Taking a class where all your classmates seem to have been born with computer science knowledge | |||
| Creating a website | |||
| Answering a question in class | |||
| Introducing yourself to a new group | |||
| Pitching your idea at a hackathon |
Note
Spend a few minutes thinking about your answers to the following questions.
- What was interesting or surprising to you about the prompts?
- Did you find yourself thinking, "This is so me" or "That's right up my alley"?
- Were there some situations where you thought, "I can't do that" or "That's not me"?