About the comfort zone, there is something I do not understand.

I often read a piece of advice, or better, the advice on the comfort zone, always the same, even if written in different forms: get out of your comfort zone, because that’s where beautiful things happen.

At first, it seemed like great advice, so I started thinking about what it meant in practice. It can mean learning new skills; making new acquaintances; attending new places; changing seats at a conference break.

But then I said to myself: okay, it is clear to me that by standing still I will never get anything new; but once I moved, for example, because I learned to program in Python, then what happens? Isn’t it that I find myself in another comfort zone?

In the words of Simon Sinek, the advice to get out of your comfort zone seems to me a finished piece of advice. It’s the rule of a finished game: I play my game and some indicator tells me if I won or if I lost. Full stop.

The advice to go out no longer has its value. Something tells me that the act of crossing an imaginary border was only a first step. Something tells me that something better could be said about the comfort zone and how staying there and getting out can help improve the quality of life of individuals and groups.