Expand Your Comfort Zone Analysis

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Many people are not very open to doing or trying new challenges they rather stay in their normal way of living. It is important to get out of normal routine and try something new because it can help them in their success. In the novel, After Summer by Nick Earls and the article, “Expand your Comfort Zone,” by Z.Hereford they both express the same theme: getting out of your comfort zone can show someone their true potential and help them discover new places. Earls expresses the theme of getting out of your comfort zone to help someone discover new places. Earls states, “Fortuna comes and asks me if I want to go to Kings to surf, and of course I say yes,”(Earls 74). This shows how Alex always stayed in his comfort zone, but once he met Fortuna

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