There’s a saying that goes, “Familiarity breeds contempt”. Familiarity is easy, it’s comforting, it’s simple - we know our way around things , we wake up to a certain way of going about our day, we eat the food that we’ve grown up on, we go to familiar places when we’re low because they bring us memories, we like spending time with friends from school and college because of the easy rapport we share, we listen to songs that lift us up when we’re low, we like to go down the same winding lanes, we sometimes re-read the same books, rearrange the same solved puzzle, rematch an old classic… My point is, familiarity has a strange solace that makes it easy to go back, tempting even. But it’s the uncharted territory that brave harts would rather follow. Take it from the achievers, the weird ones, the new breed of experimental scientists , the startup gurus, the hackers, the bloggers, the marketers, the small business owners, the chefs, the artists, the authors - it isn’t ab...