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Going to graduate school and working on projects I was not familiar with was going out of my comfort zone.
During this current time in my life, I also moved out of my flat as I left my last job.
When I was a child I become a Team leader of the Institute
When I moved abroad (Stockholm/ Frankfurt)
It was at the time I had to move to a different country where I didnt know anyone
Talk about one of the last CV achievements.
I would link this answer to an important past achievement / experience that you want to talk about. In this way you have also the opportuniy to emphasize how difficult it was to reach that result.
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Luca
My professor called me the day before a 1-hour talk he was supposed to give in front of an audience that was not convinced by the product we produce and asked if I could take it over because he broke a leg (… with no slides prepared yet).
It ended up actually being quite fun.
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Going abroad for an exchange semester and study at a business school in new topics and projects with new challenges
When I changed house and left my housmate to go living alone
Predominantly, I challenge myself to go above and beyond in the areas that I want to accomplish something. I have not played basketball for a very long time after high school. Eventually, I found out that my company was a part of a corporate basketball league with games against other companies on a weekly basis. So, I hit the gym harder than ever and tried to improve my shooting skills. I am not the tallest or the strongest guy on the team so I had to find ways to add value to the team. Suddenly, my improved conditioning and shooting had positive impact on both my offensive and defensive skill-set. I was able to be a part of the roster for a very long time, where I even joined the starting five occasionally. I try to spend a healthy amount of time in my comfort zone. Enough time to forget about the work, get some steam off, relax and reflect on my actions. Once I feel I had enough rest time, I go out again and look for further ways to improve myself.
taking my MBA while working
To be honest, my comfort zone is getting smaller and smaller because I tend to deliberately put myself into situations that are uncomfortable. But to answer this question, I will start by saying I am terrified of speaking in public. 2yrs ago my supervisor needed a volunteer to lead a Team-Based-learning course for the 1st year master students. And guess who volunteered. Yes, me. I spent several hours preparing, and practicing my lecture but that did not make me any less terrified. On the day of teaching, I disclaimed that my “nervous telltale” which is to talk really fast, was actually pure excitement. It worked! Because the students though I was just excited, they became excited. At the end of the lecture, there were so many positive feedbacks, my supervisor asked me to do it again the following year. Was was still terrified though!
I leave my comfort zone every day.
Today I had to present a product to the extended board of a huge international corporation. I was well prepared and managed well, they ordered.
This morning. Going to the gym
When I left my mechanical engineering team and joined process engineering with no chemical background at all. It was the time when pandemic started and all remote work phenomena started. New team, no face-to-face interaction, no mentoring at first days and the clients asking for solution right away. It was the most stressful moments I remember from recent.
Today!
It realized there was no other perfect time to do so.
I always want to learn new things so the last time I went out of my comfort zone was when a friend of mine invited me to try horseriding and took me to their big stable. I never had contact with horses before and the largest animals I ever touched are dogs, I only heard about accidents when horseriding which did not make the situation better so standing before these impressive and strong animals were frightening at first but I went for it and first got closer to the animal till I felt comfortable then I tried riding and it was great learning, fear confronting, adrenaline full yet rewarding experience.
