Bøger af Craig K Comstock

How do we learn to enlarge our comfort zones rather than lapsing into a life of habit? How do we negotiate the awkward stage of trying something new and learn to operate there with success? This book is the story of ten years of a challenging, surprising, and deeply satisfying career that gave the author the repeated opportunity to create an expanded comfort zone. It starts with a life falling apart around the age of 40, and describes the happy discoveries this allowed. "Enlarging Our Comfort Zones" illustrates the process of growth, which can start in many ways and take many forms. In the words of the dedication, the author wants to celebrate "clients and friends who led him into new worlds" and readers who risk enlarging their own comfort zones.

This book tells the story of a boy who, like Anne Frank, lived in Nazi-occupied Amsterdam. Unlike Anne, he was not taken into early hiding, but was able to move around the city, even to help serve its Jewish community, and observe first-hand the ominous things that were happening.Robbert Van Santen lived each day not knowing how or when the war would end, not being sure that he would survive, not imagining that as an elder he would articulate his experiences to an American author.To put one of Mary Oliver’s poetic phrases in a new context, his story is “a box full of darkness,” but in the telling he offers the author and the reader the gift of stepping into his shoes and thus the satisfaction of coming to understand a teenager’s challenging life.What did Robbert do afterward? He sought “to find joy in life despite what happened. Not instead of the memories, but as a response to them.”