[Vocabulary] blow up one's complacency

[tami29]

Dear Teachers,
Could you help me with this idiom, please? I cannot figure out its meaning.
The original context is:
"Where is the creativity in any of this? We came here to blow up our complacency. I want to see some quantum leaps."
Thank you very much for your help.

 

[Rover_KE]

Welcome to the forum, tami.

Please tell us the source of your quoted text.

 

[tami29]

Dear Rover
This quotation is from an academic paper:
How to Govern a Nation in the Twenty-First Century by Parag Khanna

 

[Skrej]

To 'blow up our complacency' means something like 'completely remove or destroy our complacency'.

Edit: You might be asking about 'quantum leaps', which in this context means 'significant progress'.