There is nothing wrong with being comfortable in life.
The advice to get out of your comfort zone, is one that should come with a caveat – first, you must outgrow your comfort zone.
Why should you get out of your comfort zone, when there is still unexplored space within it?
Why should you get out of your comfort zone, when it serves you?
Why should you get out of your comfort zone, because everyone says that’s what growth requires?
Study.
Only the inexperienced gets out of a comfort zone which still has a wide area within, to explore.
Your comfort zone should become uncomfortable, before you get out of it, unless of course, you’re masochistic, and you get the thrill out of needless pain.
I have seen some images advising people to move from their comfort zone to a fear zone and then to a learning zone and finally arriving at a growth zone. It sounds noble, but it is very specific advice that should be broadly ignored.
The greats played within their comfort zones. All stretches out of their comfort zones were necessitated, not necessarily wanted.
The trick it seems, is to be ready when the need arises for you to expand your comfort zone. Some do this by improving their leverage, others do this by increasing their alternatives.
There is nothing wrong with your comfort zone. You have just not been able to fully understand how to use it, so you compare your comfort zone to another’s comfort zone and you call theirs endearing names like fear zone, learning zone, stretch zone or growth zone.
Quit comparing. When it is time for you to expand your comfort zone, you will not even be able to choose otherwise.
Comfort zones are like shoe sizes, you increase them as you grow, and then when you are fully grown, you work with one till you die.
Comfort zones are neither stress-free nor friction-free.
This should go without saying, but in a world that has grown to abhor all appearances of comfort, it is worth repeating – “There is nothing wrong with being comfortable in life.”
– Osasu Oviawe