What is the connection between “Comfort Zone” and Newton’s Laws of Motion?

What is the connection between "Comfort Zone" and Newton's Laws of Motion?

If I know Who Stops Me, why am I not changing to move ahead faster? I guess there are no easy answers. One way to search for an answer could be to apply Newton’s Laws of Motion in our personal life.

The First Law of Motion suggests

A body remains at rest, or in motion at a constant speed in a straight line, unless acted upon by a force. We all understand this as Intertia

Inertia as equivalent to “Comfort Zone“.

We do not want to move out of this zone as

it is painful,
it can make us nervous,
it is risky

For when for the time ye ought to be teachers, ye have need that one teach you again which be the first principles of the oracles of God; and are become such as have need of milk, and not of strong meat. For every one that useth milk is unskilful in the word of righteousness: for he is a babe.

Hebrews 5:12-13

यदग्रे चानुबन्धे च सुखं मोहनमात्मन: | निद्रालस्यप्रमादोत्थं तत्तामसमुदाहृतम् || 39||

yad agre chānubandhe cha sukhaṁ mohanam ātmanaḥ nidrālasya-pramādotthaṁ tat tāmasam udāhṛitam

That happiness which covers the nature of the self from beginning to end, and which is derived from sleep, indolence, and negligence, is said to be in the mode of ignorance.

Bhagvad Geeta 18-39

The ignorance is actually not a bliss. The falsehood of comfort, happiness that comes out of our own laziness to change will lead us nowhere. The of Hem and Haw in the book Who Moved my Cheese is well known. Hem showed inertia and suffered. Haw fought it and got a large source of cheese.

A few questions to ask for oneself to get out of the inertia:

Did you try doing something new and different in the last 6 months?
Did you learn something new and different in the last 3 months?
Did you identify yourself with something that did not go well in the last 3 months?

If you have difficulty in saying yes to the above objectively you should check if you are in a “comfort zone“

What is the connection between "Comfort Zone" and Newton's Laws of Motion?

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