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> 8. Leave your comfort zone.

> Of course, there’s also the point where you’re just overwhelmed. That’s the panic zone. That’s where you’ll black out. That’s where all you can do is to try to keep your head outside the water hope somebody will safe you.

Too often I hear the 'leave the comfort zone' argument. But finally opposite side is also mentioned - panic zone.

As of recently leaving comfort zone I was completely lost, damaging my self-confidence. Afterall, I might have walked too far, into panic-zone. Shall take one step back and try again.



I have had a couple of maintenance programming jobs, where there was a mountain of undocumented code. I would just stare for days, thinking I wasn’t getting anywhere, but it did eventually click.




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