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Everything Is Scary Until It's Not

  2 min read Comfort zone: two words we like to use a lot in our daily lives. Oxford dictionary defines the comfort zone as “   a place or situation in which you feel safe or comfortable, especially when you choose to stay in this situation instead of trying to work harder or achieve more ”.* So, making coffee in the morning in my kitchen, for example, is completely within my comfort zone. However, hopping on my bike and cycling fifteen minutes through traffic to get to campus, making small talk with the barista, and ordering my coffee at Pret is absolutely beyond of my comfort zone. Of course, there are levels. Not everything is as simple as having my morning coffee from Pret. I have been trying to step outside of my comfort zone for a while now. Actually I thought we have closed that deal years ago. But it appears that we did not. I am not sure where this all started. It was way before my UK journey. Anyway, I have been doing my best since then. But sometimes it still fe...