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"Break your comfort zone"

by Adriana Moya Solis on DECEMBER 5, 2014

Gregory Cajina, author of «Break your comfort zone» (Oniro), lives between Germany and Madrid, allowing him to continually make comparisons between the two countries. To explain how we can apply the theory in his book - in which the reader is encouraged to take risks and make their own decisions in life - to relationships between parents and children, the first thing he does is place ourselves with a comparison between the two countries. «Here the child is the center of the family. In Germany they are important, but they are one more member. In Germany, education is very much oriented towards the independence of the child, something that traditional Spanish teaching dynamites. Here the child is bolted to the chair and is expected not to get up until the race is over. It's not that Germanic children are smarter or have a different brain structure. It is that, contrary to here, they are educated in independence, creativity or experimentation »

That is why the first thing Cajina is committed to is because parents in Spain teach children to assume their own responsibility, from their earliest age and during adolescence. «You have to teach the child to break out of his own comfort zone from the age of two, obviously setting a limit. The best legacy that parents can leave to their children is not money, property ... But the self-confidence of knowing that in their head are all the resources to find or get what they need. The child has to know that he will be able to reinvent himself, because he knows how to look from different points of view »