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You can’t become truly comfortable with a skill until you’ve practiced enough to master it. But practicing it before you master it is uncomfortable, so you often avoid it.

When discomfort is a signal of progress, you don’t want to run away from it. You want to keep stumbling toward it to continue growing.

You don’t need to get comfortable before you can practice your skills. Your comfort grows as you practice your skills.

…as long as you’re willing to be a little uncomfortable, it’s never too late to learn. And that courage can be contagious.

We worry that when we step back, we’ll loose our footing altogether. This means we may stay exactly where we are – steady but stuck. We need to embrace the discomfort of getting lost.

Watching and tracking and monitoring provides comforting evidence – the snapshot, the print-out, the fix on a map – of ‘presence’ in a virtual, mobile, split-focus world.

…every leader should have… someone who feels comfortable telling you when you aren’t acting as the best version of yourself.

Growth happens outside of your comfort zone.

Our ideas can enslave or liberate us. Some people never do make the transition and remain resident in the old world view; their ideological comfort zone.

Pushing past what’s comfortable… is only one part of the deliberate-practice story; the other part is embracing honest feedback – even if it destroys what you thought was good.