Comfort is the most dangerous thing you can give a young career.
Not failure. Not confusion. Comfort.
I’m 23, with three years of startup experience and now building my own company. Here’s how I see growth: many people early in their careers lose curiosity not from lack of talent, but from too much comfort. When work becomes easy, effort fades and when effort fades, growth stops.
Comfort isn’t peaceful, it’s quietly expensive.
For me, growth comes from building and learning both inside and outside my field. I work on non-technical things too: crochet, drawing, solving a Rubik’s cube, dancing, creating just for the joy of it. These things keep my inner child alive and, more importantly, teach me how to be a beginner again.
Being a beginner matters. Learning something new means being uncomfortable, failing, and trying again. When you get used to that discomfort, you start believing you can build anything. But first, you have to learn how to sit with not knowing.
That’s where many of us struggle. We live in a world of short attention spans. We try something new, don’t see instant progress, get bored, and quit. Over time, we start avoiding anything slow, difficult, or messy. But staying even when it’s boring—is what builds reliability.
Growth isn’t about always feeling inspired. It’s about showing up when learning feels slow and progress is invisible. It’s about choosing curiosity over comfort and discomfort over stagnation.
Growth isn’t about feeling inspired. It’s about staying when quitting would be easier.
So I choose to stay uncomfortable.
Not to impress anyone but to stay alive in my work.
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