It's not easy to stretch outside your comfort zone. After all, it's called a comfort zone for a reason. Outside your comfort zone is pain. And you're built to avoid pain.
It's only natural to resist the things that don't line up with your personality and preferences. You could call this one of the default settings of being human. And so we tend to surround ourselves with people who help us avoid the pain of the stretch. It usually takes a dramatic shift in our circumstances (marriage, career transition, children, relocation, illness, etc.) to press the urgency of growing beyond our comfort zones.
LARNACA, Cyprus (AP) — An Egyptian man who hijacked an EgyptAir plane during a routine domestic flight to Cairo and forced it to land on the island of Cyprus on Tuesday has surrendered and was taken into custody after he released all the passengers and crew.
His surrender ended an hours-long drama and standoff at the Larnaca airport in southern Cyprus. The hijacker had earlier freed most of the passengers but kept seven people — four crew members and three passengers — with him.
