Week 4: Chapter 3 — Counterfeit Comfort and the First Hard Thing

1.Alex and Brett describe the first category of hard things as those that are "outside your comfort zone" — not necessarily huge, dramatic acts, but everyday choices to push past what is easy and familiar. What does your personal comfort zone look like? Name two or three things you consistently avoid because they're uncomfortable.

2.The authors use the phrase "counterfeit comfort" to describe the false sense of safety we get from staying small. What makes comfort counterfeit — that is, what does it promise that it ultimately cannot deliver?

3.Hebrews 12:11 says that discipline "seems painful rather than pleasant, but later it yields the peaceful fruit of righteousness." How does this verse reframe the difficulty of hard things — not as a sign that something is wrong, but as evidence that something good is happening?