Experience, comfort zone and survival

I believe in going out of your comfort zone. When a person gets too embedded in his comfort zone, he loses his flexibility and adaptability.

Once you're out of your comfort zone and you become stressed, your survival skills kick in and you think of all sorts of ideas to get yourself out of the mess. That's a trait of human beings.

This was what a reservist friend said, that got me thinking and pondering.

""There is nothing 'low' about survival," Mercor contradicted her. As always, his voice was calm, almost placid. "Think of it as experience hard won, Sintara. When you die and are eaten, or when your young hatch from the egg, they will carry forward your memories of this time. No hardship endured is a loss. Someone will learn from it. Someone profits from it.""
- "Dragon Haven" by Robin Hobb