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Get Out Of Your Comfort Zone or You’ll Never Be Fluent

Nobody’s ever gotten great by being comfortable and you won’t either.

Mathias Barra
3 min readAug 19, 2019

Learning anything takes time. We all know this and being prepared for it is the very first step in any endeavor.

Yet, spending time on a task is not all which is required to improve. You could learn and review things within your comfort zone for years on end and never truly reach greatness.

This fact is particularly visible when it comes to language learning.

While the first step are, by design, outside of our comfort zone due to the newness of said language, we quickly start spending time on knowledge barely outside of what we already know.

This has its own advantages as it allows us to stretch our brain just enough to remember easily the newly studied matter, but it reduces drastically the potential results we could get by really going out of our way to make it difficult.

Here are the 2 best ways to really push yourself out of the comfort zone and improve a whole lot while experiencing a new culture.

Unexpected Practice

As says the title, this should be unexpected.

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Mathias Barra
Mathias Barra

Written by Mathias Barra

French polyglot speaking 6 languages. Writer. Helping you learn languages. Get my new ebook → https://linktr.ee/MathiasBarra

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