Disrupting My Comfort Zone Summary

Doing New Things: A Response To “Disrupting My Comfort Zone”

Brian Grazer, an Oscar award winning movie director and Emmy-winning television producer, wrote an essay called “Disrupting my Comfort Zone.” He explains how he makes everything harder on himself just to make him better. He talks about trying to set up interviews with world famous people. He goes on to talk about an interview that all that happens is that he is insulted and ridiculed. He says ¨that is okay,¨ because all he does from it is learn and grow (91). He doesn’t need to do all of this to himself but he says that “disrupting my comfort zone, bombarding himself with challenging situations,” is the one way he knows to keep going (92).

After reading Grazer’s essay, my reaction to it is that making things more difficult on himself is the one way he knows how to make himself better. I completely agree with his idea behind it. People and kids today tend to just coast through high school and college. How are they going to be more successful than someone that works hard every day to get where they want to be. Being a senior, I can see it in our own school that some students just sit back and relax through the day and don’t push themselves to get better, but I also see people who push themselves harder every day to be extraordinary in what they do.

My ACT score wasn’t even high enough to take this class but I still decided it would be in my best interest to take the class and expand my knowledge. With English being one of my worst subjects, I knew that taking it would challenge me to work harder than I ever have before. I knew if I didn’t make things harder on myself I wouldn’t go anywhere in