Yeah--I try, myself, to push out of the comfort zone. That's part of what this trip is about. It's also what I was doing when I took the motorcycle class last year. That didn't turn out so well--I was one of a couple of people in the class that flunked. I don't like failure--AT ALL--but at least I tried it. I even got back on after laying down the bike. I'm just not a terribly coordinated person and a poor candidate for something that could get me killed if I did it wrong. Still, I tried.
And the silly thing, too, is that even though I'm usually glad I did something, even if it didn't turn out perfectly, it still quite often holds me back from getting moving. I think it's just a way of thinking that becomes habitual. In my case, anyway.