{"id":36306,"date":"2021-05-10T04:00:30","date_gmt":"2021-05-10T11:00:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/speedsecrets.com\/?p=36306"},"modified":"2021-09-04T12:34:40","modified_gmt":"2021-09-04T19:34:40","slug":"q-what-does-being-comfortable-being-uncomfortable-mean-and-how-do-i-do-that","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/speedsecrets.com\/q-what-does-being-comfortable-being-uncomfortable-mean-and-how-do-i-do-that\/","title":{"rendered":"Q: What does being \u201ccomfortable being uncomfortable\u201d mean, and how do I do that?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Q<\/strong>: \u201cI\u2019ve you heard you talk about being \u201ccomfortable being uncomfortable.\u201d I think I know what you mean, but I\u2019m not sure, and for sure I want to know how to do that consistently in a long stint on track?\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

A<\/strong>: My first reaction to this question is, the more you practice being comfortable being uncomfortable, the more consistently you\u2019ll be able to drive in this state. So, it builds on itself.<\/p>\n

If you\u2019re unfamiliar with this phrase, the idea is that the more time you spend being slightly uncomfortable, on the edge, with the car moving around a bit more than you\u2019re used to, the more comfortable you\u2019ll get with it. Eventually, you\u2019ll spend so much time being uncomfortable, that you actually crave being uncomfortable \u2013 you\u2019ll be comfortable being that way.<\/p>\n

Consider people like Alex Honnold (the Free Solo<\/em> rock climber), Travis Pastrana (Nitro Circus, X-Games superstar), and even Lewis Hamilton. How do you think they feel when they\u2019re not climbing, jumping motorcycles, or racing an F1 car? Maybe a bit bored? When they\u2019re doing these things that make most people uncomfortable, they\u2019re comfortable. That uncomfortable zone is normal to them. But they\u2019ve become programmed to feel that way, through tons of repetition, both physically and mentally. Watch the movie, Free Solo<\/em>, and you see Honnold mentally rehearsing what he\u2019s going to do until he\u2019s comfortable doing what was once uncomfortable. You might even say that he lives (is truly alive) when he\u2019s a little bit uncomfortable.<\/p>\n

This does take time, but it\u2019s all about your mental programming, and you can develop this programming \u2013 this way of being, this state of mind \u2013 through mental imagery, as well as physically driving on track. With that in mind, I\u2019d suggest spending time doing mental imagery of yourself driving on that edge for a long time, and getting very comfortable with it \u2013 in fact, the more you do it, the more comfortable you get. See, feel and hear yourself driving that way, and imagine feeling awesome the more you drive. Build the mental program of being in that zone of being comfortable being uncomfortable, and driving consistently at that level. Again, it takes time, but you can do a lot of it before you ever go to the track.<\/p>\n

While not the same, spending time on a simulator can help with this. And for sure, any time spent driving on a slippery surface like a skid pad or on dirt in a rally car, will contribute to you getting comfortable being uncomfortable.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Q: \u201cI\u2019ve you heard you talk about being \u201ccomfortable being uncomfortable.\u201d I think I know what you mean, but I\u2019m not sure, and for sure I want to know how to do that consistently in a long stint on track?\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[57],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36306","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ask-ross"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/speedsecrets.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36306","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/speedsecrets.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/speedsecrets.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/speedsecrets.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/speedsecrets.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36306"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/speedsecrets.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36306\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36307,"href":"https:\/\/speedsecrets.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36306\/revisions\/36307"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/speedsecrets.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36306"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/speedsecrets.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36306"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/speedsecrets.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36306"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}