Whenever someone asks my take on some topic, or whenever I see two persons debating about some topic, the first thing I do is to ask, "What do you exactly mean by <topic>?" Oftentimes, that unclogs that debate, and some real discussion starts.
Once you start throwing this question at all places where its applicable (even when you hear a debate on YouTube, you can ask yourself, what do these people exactly mean by that thing they are arguing about?), you will realize the insane amount of times people misbelieve what other person means by something.
If the thing is a catchphrase or a buzzword, the probability of this problem existing is nearly 100%.
Anyways, who hasn't heard "get out of comfort zone" and all those stuff?
But it is insane how many people haven't even thought about what they mean by comfort zone. Most of the times people say this, it means "do things that seem difficult to you". But if you think about it, is there even any point in doing something just because it seems difficult to you? Without any conditionality, this is absolute nonsense. Same logic applies to similar phrases like "things that don't kill you make you stronger".
So, Tamseel Kun, are you going to defy the conventional wisdom of ancient masters?
Haha, yes, I am. What can you do? Beat it if you can.
Just kidding.
If you ever take a survey from a population to measure the extremeness of difficulty of things that people think they are supposed to do when it is said "to get out of comfort zone", you will find out a systematic bias in the results. That extremeness of difficulty will be much higher for those people who tend to be weaker in those areas of life that are considered to be more important by their social circle even if they are exceptional in some area of life that is not held in very high regard by the society. Meanwhile an average respondent measures the things he thinks people are supposed to do to get out of comfort zone as much less difficult than the first group.
I believe this phenomenon is general but the specific area that brought me to this concept was socializing. It is very common for introverts to receive the advice to socialize more even when they hate it, and it only drains their precious energy which could have found a much better use in some other thing.
For people having some sort of mental difficulties, it is a torture sometimes to get out of their comfort zone, but it is bizarre how widely we exclaim this thing without understanding it.
Coming back to conventional wisdom, if you think about some giant leap that you made in your life because of doing something difficult, you will realize that even though it felt hell of a difficult, there was still some safety net out there (even if you don't realize at first). For anyone who thinks, it is important to take unbounded risks to achieve some sort of greatness in life, I would suggest you to rethink your ideology, and let me know if you conclude that you are right.