Comment on Get on the Plane: You Become What You Do at the Margins by Jordan Schumacher

Great post, and I couldn’t agree more. All of the gains and growth in any skill don’t come until you are one step outside of your comfort zone, or as you said, when you’re “at the margin.”

Lifting weights? If you’re used to doing reps of 10, all the gains will come after rep 11.
Training for a marathon? If your comfort zone is a 5 mile run, you won’t start improving until you run 6.
Writing a book or blog? It’s not until you fully complete a post and hit publish (the biggest point of resistan...