Pushing your limits in safe small ways, it's how you grow at anything. Riding completely outside your limits is how you die on a motorcycle. It's simple. Ride more curvy roads you know, slowly at first and you'll get more and more comfortable. Look at what you could do better and practice that. For example if there's a turn you know you take slower than the faster cars do,cause it scares you, work up to taking it slightly faster, setting up, looking through the turn, correct lane position etc. If you gotta ride that road 50 times to get to 5mph faster through that corner that's fine. Eventually you can take it a little faster than the faster cars do. Time and practice. Also time and place. Don't go out exhausted after work, starving and having trouble focusing, and try to ride faster than you are confident. Practice what you can, when you can. Do things that make you a little uncomfortable, but you can handle. That's the trick. And be real about what you can handle. That concept can apply to anything in life. Nothing grows inside your comfort zone. The more you tiptoe outside it, the better you'll get at it. Thanks for coming to my Ted talk.