From a comfort zone to another :/

Like everything, the beginning is always the most complicated part. All is new, we are not aware of what we should do or how. Then, after a certain period (it depends on you), we become more familiar with those things. One day, you wake up and realize that you are now in a routine. Nothing seems hard or weird. Maybe you become able to work listening to music, you can let the other interrupt or distract you because -now- it is so easy to restart… You are now an “expert” in your matter….

Sometimes you start to love what are you doing, finding yourself in that lovely comfort zone.

Then something bad happens!

Your boss (or even yourself) says to you:

“Stop working only on that thing! Go out from your comfort zone”

T_T

So, again.
Let’s start studying the new field, the pros and cons, what to do and don’t.
Again the 2-3 weeks of pain.

“I was so fine with that task, why I have to switch?!”  ~crying like a baby.

And then what? The time inexorably pass and you feel more confident.
Day by day, until you reach again that amazing sensation…
“Hey?!  I’m fine with this task, I feel like a pro”

… Awesome isn’t it?!

 

 

No!

Not at all! Because in the meantime you stop being an expert of the previous one! (At least in my case)

You are now in a comfort zone that is far from the first one! And once you complete the task you have to start over again!

So, how can we become expert for real? How can we maintain more than one comfort zone?!

Actually, I don’t know.

I am struggling with this issue probably since the beginning of my PhD.

Splitting myself between: Writing and Data analysing.

Probably like the 99% of the PhD students, I jump from writing (a paper, a research proposal, a ask for grant, the new recipe to not dying while trying something new to cook, etc.) to data analysing (studying the method, studying the theory behind it, making try, confute your experiment, making simulations).

But these tasks are not easy, at all.

The writing part, normally comes right after the data analysis and it takes a while. You know, study the previous work, check all the quotes, make all the figures… Done? Nope! Check for grammar mistake, get ready for the submission, submit. (Wait for the review = pain)

I don’t know how long it should take. I know for sure that some people are like god to me. They are able to write in a couple of days O_O I’m too noob yet.
So, It takes weeks! Sometimes months (like the last 10 months… In september “I’m close to submit this new paper!! Awesome! —> new evidences… I’m still here >__< )

So… Months and then I’ve to start over again with the data analysis…
Weeks or months, again.

It seems exact the right time to go out from a comfort zone to another T_T
(Maybe one day I’ll become a pro in both field :P)