This was discomforting. I hadn’t recognized any of the names, (well, one seemed familiar), yet I was drawn to their quotes. A little Wikipedia check has made me very interested to read more.
1. Discomfort is very much part of my master plan. –Jonathan Lethem
2. All discomfort comes from suppressing your true identity. –Bryant H. McGill
3. I often feel a discomfort, a kind of embarrassment, when I explain elementary-particle physics to laypeople. It all seems so arbitrary – the ridiculous collection of fundamental particles, the lack of pattern to their masses. –Leonard Susskind
4. We’re so preoccupied with protecting children from disappointment and discomfort that we’re inadvertently excusing them from growing up. –LZ Granderson
5. I think art comes from some sense of discomfort with the world, some sense of not quite fitting with it. –Yann Martel
6. I wish for a world where everyone understands that discomfort is the price of legendary. And fear is just growth coming to get you. –Robin S. Sharma
7. Emotional discomfort, when accepted, rises, crests, and falls in a series of waves. Each wave washes parts of us away and deposits treasures we never imagined. –Martha Beck
8. If you’re never able to tolerate a little bit of pain and discomfort, you’ll never get better. –Angela Duckworth
9. Still today, I cannot cross the threshold of a teaching institution without physical symptoms, in my chest and my stomach, of discomfort or anxiety. And yet I have never left school. –Jacques Derrida
10. Comfort zones are most often expanded through discomfort. –Peter McWilliams
Jonathan Lethem- American novelist, Gun, with Occasional Music
I must read. Never heard of him but the Wikipedia article was fascinating.
Bryant H. McGill– His articles have reached more people on social media than any top shared article, by any other writer or media outlet including the New York Times, Barack Obama, Huffington Post, or CNN. 12+ MILLION Social Subscribers!
I should check him out!
Leonard Susskind- is an American physicist, who is professor of theoretical physics at Stanford University, and director of the Stanford Institute for Theoretical Physics.
Okay, clearly I missed the boat here, and I need to read more about him.
LZ Granderson- is an American journalist, a contributor at ABC News and a columnist for ESPN.
Nope, never heard of him, but I will look for him now.
Yann Martel- Spanish Canadian author.
Yes, I finally remembered one. Life of Pi author
Robin S. Sharma- is a Canadian writer and motivational speaker known for his The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari book series.
Sounds interesting!
Martha Beck- is an American sociologist, life coach, best-selling author, and speaker who specializes in helping individuals and groups achieve personal and professional goals. She holds a bachelor’s degree in East Asian Studies and master’s and Ph.D. degrees in sociology, both from Harvard University. Beck is the daughter of deceased LDS Church scholar and apologist, Hugh Nibley. She received national attention after publication in 2005 of her best-seller, Leaving the Saints: How I Lost the Mormons and Found My Faith in which she recounts her experiences of surviving sexual abuse. In addition to authoring several books, Beck is a columnist for O, The Oprah Magazine.
Wow, I just had to paste the whole Wikipedia article.
Angela Duckworth- American academic, psychologist and popular science author. She is Christopher H. Browne Distinguished Professor of Psychology at the University of Pennsylvania,[1] where she studies grit and self-control.
Grit and self control? Well okay!!
Jacques Derrida- was a French philosopher best known for developing a form of semiotic analysis known as deconstruction, which he discussed in numerous texts, and developed in the context of phenomenology. He is one of the major figures associated with post-structuralism and postmodern philosophy.
Applied and sociolinguistics, psychoanalysis, political theory ??? I should have known about this guy.
Peter McWilliams– American author of self help books, and a prime advocate of the legalization of marijuana.
Hmm, I let his quote in, even though he mentioned “comfort zone”. I disagree with him but I should read what his argument is.
