us feel secure and safe, like heaping on blankets to ward off the cold (or monsters under the bed). And yet, if we stayed in the safe cocoon of our bed for our lives, what would we experience? What would we achieve? What would be the epitaph written on our tombstones?
Those questions all have the same answer: nothing.
Everything we want in life is squarely outside of our comfort zones—some closer, and some further outside. Growth, learning, and progress are outside. So are accomplishment, fulfillment, and satisfaction. They lie over the obstacles of fear, anxiety, and the unknown. The comfort zone for most people isn’t about comfort; it’s about retreating from fear and the fear of failure