Is There a Zone of Proximal Development?

LZ Granderson: Letting go and walking away puts you in this place that's immediately putting you into the domain of the unknown. And depending on how you relate to that, it can determine or make more likely whether that domain is something that you kind of live in order to not experience, right? LZ: In order to be intimate, you have to tolerate anxiety because human beings have two fundamental drives - a deep longing for closeness and security as well as autonomy. He says there are three ways by which we move towards moving away from an anxious state; one is just dissociate rather than say your truth and risk being close with you. The other way is, he says