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The Comfort Crisis
- Embrace Discomfort to Reclaim Your Wild, Happy, Healthy Self
- Narrated by: Michael Easter
- Length: 8 hrs and 52 mins
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Summary
“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.
Critic reviews
“Changes the way we think about the modern world and how everyday conveniences are eroding our understanding of what it mean to be human.” (Richard Dorment, editor in chief, Men’s Health)
“I read The Comfort Crisis in three straight sittings and was so motivated and inspired that I immediately made changes to my daily routines. Two months later, I've never been fitter, more self-confident, or happier. 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 six-time New York Times best-selling author)
“Entertaining and enlightening, Easter’s quest for a ‘rewilded’ diet, creative boredom, and other sensation - restoring discomforts is chock-full of solid science as well as a rollicking adventure.” (Dan Fagin, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Toms River: A Story of Science and Salvation)
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- Phillip
- 13-08-23
Great writing, insights & stories
It’s not often you get books that share insights through a great story. I was surprised how well written the book was.
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- Carl Edwards
- 22-08-23
Couldn’t put It down
This is a great listen and really eye opening with simple steps you can put in place to improve your life. We’ve forgotten how to live and this book tells you why with a mixture of practical advice, the science behind this and wrapped in an engaging story. Highly recommended.
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- Master NPM
- 13-01-24
A reminder to live life
A helpful summary of the areas of comfort which have crept up on us all, and how pushing us outside our comfort zones is healthier for us.
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- bobby
- 03-09-21
Game changer
The take away from this book will change how you live for the better. If it doesn't you can come punch me in the face.
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- Robbo
- 23-11-23
Outstanding
Great book highlighting the keys to good health, well-being and happiness, by looking at where modern western society has drifted off track and in the pursuit of making life easier and more enjoyable, it is in fact making us sick, fragile and depressed.
All this set to the backdrop of a really well written account of a Caribou hunt in Alaska.
Will be revisiting this no doubt. Lots of takeaways to improve mental and physical health and a great story
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- Naomi Scroggins
- 21-12-23
Thought provoking and life changing
Loved everything about this book; it confirmed many things I have been thinking about but also introduced me to things I have not thought about. I am going to buy the book as I know it is something I will return to again and again as I embrace discomfort.
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- David C
- 04-09-22
Important and inspirational listening
A good book and well read. Maybe a bit long winded at times but overall the message is worth your patience.
The section on diet was the only but that felt a little bit cherry picked, and over simplified, but otherwise, he highlights many many good examples of why comfort may not be healthy in the long run.
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- Charles Bertoia
- 17-04-23
Great book, powerful message
I really enjoyed this book. I wasn’t sure at first how much I enjoyed it but I found it very interesting and the message resonated. The story telling weaved with the research is a model that works really well. Similar to Born to Run in many ways.
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- Brian
- 18-08-23
Extremely informative and well written.
Extremely informative and well written. Lots of insights into how modern life is negatively affecting us, but without falling into the trap of similar books in arguing that one thing will solve all our modern ailments. Tips provided are easily implemented and sustainable imo.
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- Giles Sequeira
- 05-02-24
An absolute must read/listen.
Brings together so many different strands that I have read about separately, from intermittent fasting to rucking. Great book
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