Breaking out your comfort zone.
Found this article, pretty interesting.
The Science of breaking out your comfort zone (and why you should
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Simply, your comfort zone is a behvioral space where your activities and behaviors fit a routine and pattern that minimizes stress and risk. It provides a state of mental security. You benefit in obvious ways: regular happiness, low anxiety, and reduced stress.
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In order to maximize performance, however, we need a state of relative anxiety—a space where our stress levels are slightly higher than normal. This space is called "Optimal Anxiety," and it's just outside our comfort zone. Too much anxiety and we're too stressed to be productive, and our performance drops off sharply.
And I also think this is a common problem with youth and not-so-youth people nowadays. Since most of people I've met both online or IRL are like...
unambitious and scarred of new things ( I too include myself in some part).
Re: Breaking out your comfort zone.
Join the military if you can.
No, seriously.