About me

As the author/creator of the No Comfort Zone Challenge, I was able to invent this because I have been through this same challenge, although I didn’t realize it as I was living through it.

As an adolescent, I was curious about many things around me, and as I investigated as much as possible, I found that I needed to start journaling to help me. The journaling began in junior high school (senior public in Ontario), where a teacher with a passion for writing issued all of the students in her class a notebook entitled ‘Thoughts’. As much as this particular notebook rarely saw genuine dialogue, we (the students) simply jotted down some passing thought as we were required to read one per week. Some wrote jokes. The real value in the Though notebook was the implication that my thoughts had sufficient value to warrant being granted a notebook for them.

Then came the end of high school, and on my 18th birthday I decided to commit to journaling, to help me with my many investigations. The writing did not start off immediately as helpful in my investigation; there were poetic experiments and I’ve always had a hankering to write fiction, so I experimented with that as well. Eventually, I learned to document the realities I was encountering, and I wrote about them with stark honesty. It was when I started this that I began to learn of the underlying truths to my life. I would argue that it is here where I began what I imagined to be a philosopher’s vocation, but I’ve since learned that actual philosophers (the ones in universities) are at the pinnacle of the pedagogic paradigm, and as such, read as many other philosophers’ books as they can, and sheepishly proposed new ideas. The philosophy I do employs vision, as gleaned through my journaling. I must fight for the truths I discover, and frequently I’ll do a wholesale dump of a conclusion so that I can begin afresh to see if I arrive at that same conclusion.

It is after my lifetime of these investigation that a decided to find a way to explain what I know. Unfortunately, many things I’ve concluded are very contentious and not for public consumption. So I finally found a way to present what I know, or at least what might be acceptable to the general public. It is for this reason that I created this challenge; it is a way to ease, or to begin outsiders to consider such a mission.

I’m hoping that you may find a genuine niche within your psyche to attempt this challenge. You won’t be sorry.