Episode · Modern Wisdom · 2022-02-21
Books mentioned on Learn To Embrace Discomfort - Michael Easter - #438
Michael Easter is a contributing editor at Men's Health magazine, columnist for Outside magazine and Professor at the University of Nevada. The world is pretty comfortable right now.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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Endurance
Endurance by Alfred Lansing is a gripping historical account of Sir Ernest Shackleton's ill-fated 1914 Antarctic expedition, detailing the crew's remarkable survival against insurmountable odds.
Discussed“have you read endurance by alfred lansing about ernest shackleton's trip across the antarctic have you ever read that”
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The Comfort Crisis
The Comfort Crisis by Michael Easter is a popular nonfiction book that explores how modern society's obsession with comfort and convenience negatively impacts human health, happiness, and survival instincts.
Recommended“michael easter ladies and gentlemen the comfort crisis embrace discomfort to reclaim your wild happy healthy self will be linked in the show notes below”
Other mentions in this episode (3) — ad reads, self-promotion and passing references, never counted
Own book The Comfort Crisis
“so in the book i really single out these what i consider really important forms of discomfort um that we evolved to face that naturally kind of keep us healthy that we have engineered out of our lives”
Own book The Comfort Crisis
“so i basically told you that to say that like if i were at home this is radically different than how i would have dealt with boredom”
Own book The Comfort Crisis
“so i kind of like lay out a whole sort of action plan in the book inherently and it's um but i think that doing one really hard thing a year like i talked about more time outside i talk about really the benefits of that”