每个人都说“走出舒适区”，但没有人说“怎么做”。
人们总是说，尤其是成功人士，会说“走出你的舒适区”。但实际上，没有人真正解释过如何走出舒适区，或者如何意识到自己正处于其中。
所以我来讲讲我的故事。
我在一家初创公司担任创始工程师。虽然这家公司并不算真正的科技公司，但我被聘为技术负责人，全面负责产品。我编写代码，与现有用户沟通，收集反馈，分析用户体验，将人工智能整合到系统中，改善工作流程，提高团队效率，基本上从设计到部署的所有工作我都在做。
有趣的是，我在这家初创公司几乎不怎么工作，可能每天只工作一到两个小时。
最初的三个月，工作非常轻松。起初我甚至没有构建太多东西。这算是一份远程工作。我每周去一次创始人的办公室，聊聊天，仅此而已。我了解一切，然后从那里开始负责。我规划了一切，创建了Jira看板，和他分享更新，给他一个我正在做的事情和进展的完整图景。
与此同时，在这三个月里，我还在侧面构建一个产品。
三个月后，他让我去办公室。我告诉他：“我不是一个适合办公室的人。我不喜欢朝九晚五的工作，也无法保证在固定的时间内保持高效。”但他坚持说他对我们正在做的事情失去了上下文。
所以我同意了。
当我开始去办公室时，我意识到了一件事。他仍然很少和我交谈。我依然在做之前的事情，提出建议，改善系统，构建东西，解决问题。
但我意识到，这并不是我的归属。
我讨厌坐在那四面墙内的小椅子上，通过笔记本电脑的屏幕盯着小窗户。我真心厌恶我在那里过的生活。
所以，自然地，我只想逃离。
因此，我开始更加积极地构建自己的东西。
每当他给我一个任务时，我的大脑就像定时炸弹一样立刻开启。我尽可能快地完成任务，然后立刻回去做自己的事情。
你可能不相信，就在一周内，我发布了两个产品。
仅昨天，我在三小时内创建了一个Chrome扩展，搭建了登陆页面，生成了所有的图片，创建了扩展，并发布了所有内容。在整个过程中，我大量使用了人工智能。
奇怪的是，即使完成了这一切，我仍然觉得自己可以做得更多。
这时我意识到了一件重要的事情：
我已经不再处于我的舒适区。
我身处一个我极其厌恶的境地，以至于我的思维不断试图逃离。而这种压力让我变得异常高效。
现在我正在构建自己的产品、自己的初创公司和自己的未来。
到目前为止，我一生中已经构建了大约八个产品或初创公司。在过去的两个月里，我发布了四个产品，而我甚至还没有开始好好营销它们。
这段时间，在构建的过程中，我每天都在学习新东西。我知道我现在有很多空闲时间，我认为这就是我最大的优势。
老实说，我认为这是我曾经拥有的最伟大的领悟之一。
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People always say, especially successful people, “Get out of your comfort zone.” But no one really explains how to get out of it or how to even realize you are in one.<p>So I’ll tell you my story.<p>I’m working at a startup as a founding engineer. The company is not really a tech company, but I was hired as the technical person who takes full ownership of the product. I write code, talk to existing users, collect feedback, analyze user experience, integrate AI into the system, improve workflows, make teams more efficient, and basically do everything from design to deployment.<p>The interesting part is, I barely work at this startup, maybe only one or two hours a day.<p>Initially, for the first three months, it was very easy. I wasn’t even building much at first. It was kind of a remote job. Once a week, I would go to the founder’s office, and we would have some small talks, that’s it. I would understand everything and then take ownership from there. I planned everything, created the Jira boards, shared updates with him, and gave him a complete picture of what I was doing and the progress I made.<p>At the same time, during those three months, I was also building one product on the side.<p>After three months, he asked me to come to the office. I told him, “I’m not an office person. I don’t like working 9 to 5, and I can’t guarantee that I’ll be productive during fixed hours.” But he insisted and said he was losing context about what we were working on.<p>So I agreed.<p>The moment I started going to the office, I realized something. He still barely talked to me. I was still doing exactly what I used to do before, giving suggestions, improving systems, building things, and solving problems.<p>But I realized this was not my place.<p>I hated sitting inside those four walls, on that small chair, staring at a small window through my laptop screen. I genuinely hated my life there.<p>So naturally, I just wanted to escape.<p>And because of that, I started building my own stuff even more aggressively.<p>The moment he gives me a task, my brain immediately switches on like a ticking time bomb. I finish the task as fast as possible, and then instantly go back to building my own things.<p>You won’t believe this, within one week, I shipped two products.<p>Yesterday alone, within three hours, I created a Chrome extension, built the landing page, generated all the images, created the extension, and published everything. I used AI heavily throughout the process.<p>And the strange thing is, even after doing all this, I still feel like I can do more.<p>That’s when I realized something important:<p>I was no longer in my comfort zone.<p>I was in a situation I hated so much that my mind was constantly trying to escape it. And that pressure made me insanely productive.<p>Now I’m building my own products, my own startups, and my own future.<p>So far, I’ve built around eight products or startups in my life. In just the last two months, I shipped four products, and I haven’t even started marketing them properly yet.<p>This time, while building, I’m learning new things every single day. I know I have a lot of free time right now, and I think that’s my biggest leverage.<p>And honestly, I think this is one of the greatest realizations I’ve ever had.