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The Comfort Crisis: Embrace Discomfort to Reclaim Your Wild, Happy, Healthy Self Audible Audiobook – Unabridged
“If you've been looking for something different to level up your health, fitness, and personal growth, this is it.” (Melissa Urban, Whole30 CEO and New York Times best-selling author)
Discover the evolutionary mind and body benefits of living at the edges of your comfort zone and reconnecting with the wild.
In many ways, we’re more comfortable than ever before. But could our sheltered, temperature-controlled, overfed, underchallenged lives actually be the leading cause of many our most urgent physical and mental health issues? In this gripping investigation, award-winning journalist Michael Easter seeks out off-the-grid visionaries, disruptive genius researchers, and mind-body conditioning trailblazers who are unlocking the life-enhancing secrets of a counterintuitive solution: discomfort.
Easter’s journey to understand our evolutionary need to be challenged takes him to meet the NBA’s top exercise scientist, who uses an ancient Japanese practice to build championship athletes; to the mystical country of Bhutan, where an Oxford economist and Buddhist leader are showing the world what death can teach us about happiness; to the outdoor lab of a young neuroscientist who’s found that nature tests our physical and mental endurance in ways that expand creativity while taming burnout and anxiety; to the remote Alaskan backcountry on a demanding 33-day hunting expedition to experience the rewilding secrets of one of the last rugged places on Earth; and more.
Along the way, Easter uncovers a blueprint for leveraging the power of discomfort that will dramatically improve our health and happiness, and perhaps even help us understand what it means to be human. The Comfort Crisis is a bold call to break out of your comfort zone and explore the wild within yourself.
- Listening Length8 hours and 52 minutes
- Audible release dateMay 11, 2021
- LanguageEnglish
- ASINB08LDX3TZ2
- VersionUnabridged
- Program TypeAudiobook
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Product details
Listening Length | 8 hours and 52 minutes |
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Author | Michael Easter |
Narrator | Michael Easter |
Whispersync for Voice | Ready |
Audible.com Release Date | May 11, 2021 |
Publisher | Random House Audio |
Program Type | Audiobook |
Version | Unabridged |
Language | English |
ASIN | B08LDX3TZ2 |
Best Sellers Rank | #510 in Audible Books & Originals (See Top 100 in Audible Books & Originals) #1 in Adventure Travel (Audible Books & Originals) #1 in Adventure Travel (Books) #3 in Exercise & Fitness (Books) |
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The idea of misogi made me reflect on my own life. I was describing this concept to someone who said maybe my last several months working hard through past trauma and related issues is a kind of misogi.
I'll take that, it's inspiring. I'm thinking about the next one. As for "what the heck is misogi?", you have to read the book.
Easter challenges the prevailing narrative that an excessively comfortable lifestyle leads to happiness and fulfillment. With a blend of scientific research, personal (oftentimes humorous) anecdotes, and cultural observations, he makes a compelling case for embracing discomfort as a path to growth, resilience, and a more meaningful life.
"We are living progressively sheltered, sterile, temperature-controlled, overfed, under-challenged, safet-netted lives. And it's limiting the degree to which we experience our "one wile and precisous life," (as poet Mary Oliver put it."
"But a radical new body of evidence shows that people are at their best - physically harder, mentally tougher, and spiritually sounder - after experiencing the same discomforts our early ancestors were exposed to every day."
"Comfort Crisis" is a refreshing and timely reminder that true fulfillment often lies outside our comfort zones.
Highly recommend!
Top reviews from other countries
In many ways, the lives lived by our ancestors of hunters and gatherers gave them strength and mental fortitude.
But what are we doing wrong and why our lives as comfort creeps have become detrimental to ourselves.
The book alongside narrates a very engaging story of his adventure filled stories in Alaska,
5/5
Reviewed in India on March 3, 2024
In many ways, the lives lived by our ancestors of hunters and gatherers gave them strength and mental fortitude.
But what are we doing wrong and why our lives as comfort creeps have become detrimental to ourselves.
The book alongside narrates a very engaging story of his adventure filled stories in Alaska,
5/5