you will feel embarrassing and uncomfortable
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you will feel embarrassing and uncomfortable
Yet along the way I took comfort in the fact that I am not alone. We all suck at new things. But clumsily exiting our comfort zones offers way too many upsides to ignore.
Michael Easter • The Comfort Crisis: Embrace Discomfort To Reclaim Your Wild, Happy, Healthy Self
to live with the discomfort of learning is to accept that growth rarely feels good while it’s happening. it usually feels embarrassing, inconvenient, slow. but it also feels alive. it’s the sensation of your mind or body stretching into a new shape, one it doesn’t recognize yet but will soon. and if you can stay with that feeling — if you can let... See more
how to live with the discomfort of learning (instead of running from it)
There’s so much advantage in life that comes from being willing to look like an idiot in the short-term