For me the things on the list are not what would expand my comfort zone - because they're things that are outside of normal routine, and therefore are just "crazy adventures" - which I love to do.<p>More scary for me are the mundane things - like sending back food I'm not happy with, asking for a raise, or trying to speak my embarrassing version of the local language.<p>It's funny that to think you could be far more at ease lost and hungry in a strange land than asking for a dinner reservation at a fancy restaurant.
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Stories about pushing limits gets me motivated and a lot of the "life-glimpses" in the post resonated with me, but the part about the Muslim conversion ceremony made me think: That is far more serious than physically pushing your boundaries.<p>A conversion involves your whole belief and truth system, and will affect you eternally as you have accepted the faith's beliefs about the afterlife and rejected other faiths.<p>Such a decision should not come as a result of other people's expectations or an eagerness to push boundaries.
Wow Internets....thnx.<p>I have come to a place in my life where I am considering doing a switch. A complete switch, professionally, and have been nervous and even thinking of not bothering.<p>But this post just reminded me, that sometimes it's good to push ourselves outside of our comfort zone.<p>P.S. I love Derek's posts.....always so poignant and pseudo-poetic.
You can push your comfort zone without the risk of losing your life. I would exchange all the experiences in the post for not forcing my kid to go to the singaporean army, losing two years of his life.
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This is a fantasy because none of Sivers bad experiences and times of pure hell or near death experiences were written about. None of the heartache, none of the strife or regrets.<p>Half of any story makes it nothing more than a creative license fantasy.
Most acquaintances of mine who have embarked on "adventures" like this have ended up dead, maimed, homeless or with major regrets.<p>That said, a small number of them have had an overall very positive and life enriching experience.<p>I am not surprised that Sivers is a musician. I tend to stereotype aspiring artists and musicians as wanderers/dreamers who will most likely never make any money and end up bitter and impoverished for the rest of their lives. Gypsies they call them in Romania.<p>Can you imagine a whole society of people with this attitude. Hippie commune comes to mind.