The Science of Breaking Out of Your Comfort Zone

Jeff Bezos: No Regrets

world that is outside your comfort zone.

Your Brain Likes Risks

you should become excited to learn what you’re good at and develop new skills

Inside and Outside the Comfort Zone

we’re too comfortable we stop growing and stop exerting effort, and this opens the door to bad habits. Without stimulation, ambition and performance disappear.

low levels of arousal or pressure result in low performance levels. This makes some sense: if the tension of motivation is at a low point, one has no incentive to act.

The Yerkes–Dodson Curve

The comfort zone for most people isn’t about comfort; it’s about retreating from fear and the fear of failure.

Our psychological, emotional, and behavioral inclinations inform what the comfort zone looks and feels like, determined by any number of measures: our habitats, topics of expertise, skill sets, or overall frames of mind. The security we feel in these specific realms can’t always be replicated in other areas of our lives, and