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  Amateur American        Something that I always had in mind was that failure only makes you closer to success. However, like everybody else, I doubt a lot if it is worth it or not to take risks at a new challenge, because "what if I fail"? By ignoring these intrusive thoughts I've achieved things that I never thought I could, especially when talking about my exchange program. Imagine moving to a country with a totally different culture, language and social rules, leaving all of your friends and family members behind in order to embrace this new chapter of my life. I thought I wouldn't handle it, but here I am, building my future and kind of living the "American Dream".      A few months ago, I didn't have perfect English and I had a considerably noticeable accent (I still have but less than before). Language was always the topic that I thought I would fail the most. I imagined how I would make friends at school if I couldn't even crack...

  How often do you leave your comfort zone? Discomfort is Comfortable     Leaving my comfort zone is still a challenge for me. Everyday I try to do something that will make myself better and improve by at least 1%. Once, I was having a hard time playing too much videogames, my attention span dropped, my streaks of going to the gym, studying and focusing on my life projects were negatively affected, but I wasn't able to notice it. After a certain time, my grades were still high, I was still losing weight, but it still felt like I was living in a "passive way". I was still having good results even maintaining a consistent and quite disciplined routine of playing videogames, and, since I was younger, I didn't notice the damage that it was doing to my overall personal improvement.     Staying in the comfort zone does not feel bad at all, but it's that type of illusion that kept me and probably a lot of people in the same place for a lot of time. ...