Disrupting My Comfort Zone

I was 45 years old when I decided to learn how to surf. They say that life is tough enough. But I guess I like to make things difficult on myself, because I do that all the time, every day and on purpose. That's because I believe in disrupting my comfort zone. When I started out in the entertainment business, I made a list of people that I thought would be good to me. Not people who could give me a job or a deal, but people who could shake me up, teach me something, challenge my ideas about myself and the world. So I started calling up experts in all kinds of fields. Some of them were world-famous. Of course, I didn't know any of these people and none of them knew me.

So when I called these people up to ask them for a meeting, the response wasn't always friendly.

And even when they agreed to give me some of their time, the results weren't always what one might describe as pleasant. For example, Edward Teller, is the father of the hydrogen bomb. It took me a year of begging and more begging to get to him to agree to meet with me. And then what happened? He ridiculed me and insulted me.But that was okay. I was hoping to learn something from him—and I did, even if it was only that I'm not that interesting to a physicist with no taste for our pop culture. Over the last 30 years, I've produced more than 50 movies and 20 television series. I'm successful and, my business are, pretty well known. So why do I continue to subject myself to this sort of thing? The answer is simple: Disrupting my comfort zone, bombarding myself with challenging people and situations —this is the best way that I know to keep growing. And to paraphrase a biologist I once met, if you're not growing, you're dying. So maybe I'm not the best surfer on the north shore, but that's okay. The discomfort, the uncertainty, the physical and mental challenge that I get from this—all the things that too many of us spend our time and energy trying to avoid—they are precisely the things that keep me active in the game.

打破我的舒適生活

我在45歲的時候決定學習如何沖浪。他們說生活夠艱難。但我想我喜歡給自己出難題，因為每一天我做的所有的事情都是有目的的。那是因為我認為要打破自己的舒適生活。當我開始在娛樂圈工作是，我列出那些對我有好處的人。不是說那些能給我一份工作或生意的人，而是那些能夠動搖我，教我東西，挑戰我對自己和世界的想法的人。所以我開始打電話給各種領域的專家。他們中的一些人是世界聞名的。當然，我不認識他們中的任何人并且沒有人認識我。

所以當我給這些人打電話請求與他們見面時，反應并不都是友好的。

甚至當他們同意給我一些時間，結果并不總是令人愉快的。例如，Edward Teller，氫彈之父。我花了一年多時間請求到他同意跟我見面。然后發生了什么事？他嘲笑我，侮辱我。但那是好的。我希望從他身上學到一些東西，我也做到了，就算是在對我們的流行文化沒有幫助的的物理學家。在過去的30年里，我已經制作了50多部電影和20部電視劇。我是成功的，在我的生意是眾所周知的。那么我為什么還要繼續受制于這種事嗎？答案很簡單：擾亂自己的安逸，讓自己面對具有挑戰性的人和事-這是我知道的最好的方式來保持提升。套用一個我曾經遇到的生物學家所說的，如果你不成長，那么你快死了。所以也許我不是北海岸最棒的沖浪者，但那是好的。不適，不確定性，身體和心理的挑戰，我從這所有的事情所獲得的，是太多的人花時間和精力去避免的，這些讓我在比賽中保持活力的事情。

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