Episode · The Daily Stoic · 2025-03-25
Books mentioned on Comfort Is The Enemy | Michael Easter On Why You NEED To Struggle
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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The Comfort Crisis
The Comfort Crisis by Michael Easter is a popular non-fiction book exploring how modern sedentary lifestyles and a constant avoidance of physical discomfort negatively impact human health and well-being.
Discussed“So, I feel like there's a tension in your two books I was thinking about. So, on the one hand, I totally agree. Comfort like people live these sort of soft lives where they avoid any form of discomfort. And then on the other hand, I feel like one of the things that I'm trying to work on less or”
Other mentions in this episode (4) — ad reads, self-promotion and passing references, never counted
Passing The journalist and the murderer
“I was reading this um profile of Janet Malcolm, you know, the journalist last night. She wrote the journalist and the murderer.”
Own book The Comfort Crisis
“I definitely move a lot. Yeah, I'm a mover. I trail run. I do a lot of rocking, which I wrote about in the crisis.”
Own book The Comfort Crisis
“So what got me thinking about the silencing and the comfort crisis is that and that that section on silence was not in the proposal but I went up to the Arctic and I'm there for like a month and one of the craziest things is just how silent it is.”
Own book The Comfort Crisis
“And so a lot of my argument is that you need to do things that reset that bar. And I'll give you an example of from the comfort crisis, it's that, you know, when I when I go up to the Arctic, my plane ride from Vegas to Alaska, how many complaints do I have?”