【小题1】 If you can’t remember, then you can get the chance this Father’s Day on June 19, 2022.

Generally compared to a mother’s gentle love, a father represents (代表) qualities like independence (独立), confidence, courage and adventure.

【小题2】 Fathers not only lead their children into their social circles but also teach them how to act and control their feelings. For example, Microsoft founder Bill Gates was quiet and didn’t like to talk with others when he was a little kid. 【小题3】 “Games like soccer and swimming seemed to be silly at that time but they improved my ability of leading and cooperating (合作),” Bill once said in an interview with US Fortune magazine.

【小题4】 His father once planned to pull down a wall of their shop and rebuild it. But little Will thought it was impossible. 【小题5】 “You don’t try to build a wall. You are going to lay a brick (砖) every day, And soon you have a wall,” he said on TV show Charlie Rose. “One father is more than a hundred schoolmasters,” George Herbert (1593-1633) once said, Do you agree?

Comfort Zone is a state of mind where there is the least stress. However, stepping into the learning zone can help to bring out the best in us. Here are the reasons.

▲Challenging yourself can help you do at your best.

Stepping outside one’s comfort zone is important to personal development. How can we expect to make ourselves better if we only stick to habit and routine? We should try something we might not succeed at.

▲Taking risks is what helps us grow.

As children, we’re natural risk takers. But as we get older and learn to fear failure, we start trying fewer new things. We pay a heavy price for our fear of failure. There is no learning without some difficulty.

▲Facing new challenges can help us age better.

Our comfort bones seem to become smaller as we get older — but if we can keep expanding them, we’ll open ourselves up to a greater world as we age. As we step into the learning zone, we will get more comfortable with the skills gradually and we’ll start to move into the comfort zone. A study found that learning new life skills can help our brain stay sharp as we get older.

However, don’t push yourself too far. Have you heard of “Yerkes-Dodson Law”? It means performance increased as stress grows, but only up to a point. If the level of stress becomes too high, performance will go down. When stress becomes too great for us to deal with, we enter the danger zone.

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