The George Castanza Principle

As a avid fan of Seinfeld, there were many episodes that I felt had application to life and self-exploration. One of them was based on an episode where George Castanza realized that the way to success for him was to do the opposite of what he normally did. Indeed, he found great success in this practice, and was exhilarated and relished the idea of doing exactly the opposite of what he thought he should do.

The application of this George Castanza principle in life is for us to notice how often we get into a rut doing the same things over and over again, even if they don’t don’t work, or how we fall into patterns or routines on the most basic level – the way we travel to work, routines we do at home.

Learning to break out of our comfort zones often involves doing something different, or opposite what we would normally do, for the sake of exploring the emotions that arise, expanding our comfort zone, experiencing more out of our lives, trying something new, living life more fully, etc.

As we break out of old patterns and consciously try something different, there will be often other feelings, fear, excitement, newness, all worthy of watching. I’d like to challenge anyone open to this, to apply the George Castanza principle in your life and share what happens.

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