If you want to go slow

Then choose the comfortable path.

• Do what everyone else your age is doing.
• Consume more than you create.
• Only do the bare minimum.
• Never volunteer.

But if you want to go fast, then you’ll need to venture on the edge of your discomfort.

• Pursue an extracurricular project.
• Make something and then let other people see it.
• Do without being asked.
• Start the conversation.

Author Todd Henry said it perfectly. “You cannot pursue greatness and comfort at the same time.”

Becoming your best requires venturing outside of your comfort zone to explore the new and unfamiliar.

It’s riskier and more difficult. But that’s also what makes the journey worth pursuing.