You try while others watch and wait. The embarrassment passes, the experience remains. The discomfort disappears, and you grow. Sometimes you have to blaze the trail before others can walk comfortably on it.

You already know your part of the world by heart, but it doesn't end there.

You will gain something that no one can take away from you. You will consciously find yourself in a place where the voices trying to undermine the value of your work will become quieter and quieter, and finally inaudible.

People's eyes will be on you. Not everyone will have the courage to step outside of what is familiar and predictable, so for them, watching you do it will be something “new”, but that will be their limit, they will look at how you handle it. They will never try to go further than that. Whenever you push someone's boundaries, you arouse curiosity,... See more

Sticking to what is comfortable will give you a false sense of security, but everything “outside” will still be dangerously distant, like a threat.

that embarrassment means you're doing something outside your comfort zone, something undiscovered, unknown, uncertain. And that means you're not clinging to safety, but truly uncovering your own potential.

If you want more, you should learn new perspectives and gain new experiences that will allow you to constantly develop. For this to happen, you need to put yourself in new situations to observe how you behave and gain knowledge.