How can lobsters still grow inside their hard shell?

Lobsters are soft animals that live inside a hard shell. That shell cannot expand. The question is how the lobster manages to grow anyway. It works like this: as a lobster grows, its shell becomes too tight, it comes under considerable pressure and it feels extremely uncomfortable. It hides under a rock so that it cannot be attacked, casts off the shell and produces a new one. After a while that shell no longer feels comfortable either, after which the lobster crawls under a rock again to grow a new shell. This process repeats itself time and again.

The moral of this story is that lobsters, just like people, need a certain amount of discomfort or stress in order to grow.

Colours in stressful situations

Through the stress pattern, the MyDrives analysis shows which colours mainly determine your thinking and, in turn, your behaviour when you are under heavy pressure. That behaviour can cause a driver to fall into its own pitfall. An example: structure and clear rules are characteristic of the blue driver in stress-free times. The pitfall: when the pressure becomes too high, the blue driver risks tensing up and applying rules too rigidly. In the same way you would normally recognise the yellow driver by its fondness for analysing things. In a stressful situation that analysing turns into over-analysing, which makes matters unnecessarily complicated.

Example of a MyDrives stress pattern

In the example above you can see how someone mainly displays the orange and red driver when stress arises. Under heavy stress this person does not show the positive characteristics of the driver concerned. They may even overshoot so far that they display negative behaviour. How people respond under heavy pressure often depends on who is sitting opposite them. The orange driver often becomes passive and cautious when there is a risk of losing face. And the red driver usually responds in a forceful and unsubtle way when dealing with stress.

Go for personal growth

It is important to know which colours take the upper hand in you once you have ended up in a stressful situation. And bear in mind: looking in the mirror and judging your own behaviour is always difficult. When you are under heavy pressure, it is even harder. Think of concrete examples, or ask people around you whether they recognise your behaviour and the colours that go with it. Because the more aware you are of your thinking and your actions, the better able you are to adjust your response and grow as a person.