Thereâs a fine line between âpushing yourself out of your comfort zoneâ and âpushing yourself into a mental breakdownâ and we need to fucking find it and stop encouraging people to do the second in an attempt at making them do the first.
A German pedagogue named Tom Senninger developed this model called the âLearning Zone Model.â Senninger talks about three zones: comfort, learning (or growth), and panic. I think thatâs really important because some people do talk like anything âoutside your comfort zoneâ is automatically good and brings growth.
But Senninger knows that you can only stretch so far before youâve stretched too far. Both experience, personal work, and therapy can help expand the first two zones and shrink the third, but weâll always have that place where panic and/or pain sets in, and our goal should be to recognize and respect that in ourselves and others, rather than force ourselves or someone else to âpush through it.â There is no âthrough it.â The only thing on the other side of the panic zone is more panic.
yesterday this girl in my academic writing class sits down next to me and puts 3 bananas on the desk (which was jarring by itself) and i had two bananas in my backpack so i wanted to see if she would notice if i added those to her banana pile when she wasnât looking and when she finally looked back at the bananas she sighed and said really quietly to herself âoh my godâŚi have so manyâŚâ and put all five of them in her backpack
China is putting Uyghur Muslims into Concentration Camps
This is one of the greatest attrocities and oppression taking place in the world today yet still it is one of the least talked about issues. Itâs estimated possibly over 2 million Uyghur Muslims have been put into these concentration camps which China calls âre-edcuation campsâ and the goals is to wipe out and clean them from their cultural and religious identity. They have built dozens of these camps with fortified walls and barbed wire fences which they hide from the world media.
China sees Islam as an âideological diseaseâ. Many of the people put in these camps donât make it out alive due to to the harsh living conditions inside. Many leave behind children who are then sent to government run orphanages and are brainwashed from a young age removing their cultural and religious identity.
Uyghur Muslims can be arrested and put in these camps for the smallest of reasons and every step they take is monitored by the authorities. Facial recognition cameras and high tech equipment has been deployed in East Turkestan turning it into a complete surveillance state. This isnât fantasy or âfake newsâ. This is happening now in East Turkestan. Donât let history repeat itself. Share and let the world know the truth.
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