Episode · The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett · 2023-11-02
Steven Bartlett & Michael Easter: books mentioned on The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett
The Exercise Expert: This Popular Lifestyle Is Killing 1 Person Every 33 Seconds! (The Comfort Crisis): Michael Easter
Is comfort killing you? And why can we never get enough of anything?
Steven Bartlett discussed The Comfort Crisis by Michael Easter and Scarcity Brain by Michael Easter.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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The Comfort Crisis
Discussed“one you talk in your work about I think that was in the first book The Comfort crisis about how kind of sort of adjacent to that being in large groups is has adverse consequences for our health and happiness”
Where to get it
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Scarcity Brain
Discussed“but in your second book scarcity brain you talk about food again specifically you talk quite a lot about snacking”
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Other mentions in this episode (9) — ad reads, self-promotion and passing references, never counted
Plugged The Comfort Crisis
“I I would argue I argue in the comfort crisis that the things that most impact your day-to-day life today how you live”
Plugged Scarcity Brain
“so as part of this new book scarcity brain when you uh when you look at the diseases that kill humans modern humans it's heart disease”
Plugged The Comfort Crisis
“yeah was part of the Comfort crisis The overarching Narrative of that book is I spent uh 33 days in the Arctic”
Plugged Scarcity Brain
“I mean I write about it in scarcity brain about um addiction and how we think about it”
Plugged Scarcity Brain
“so in this book um scarcity brain there's this underlying question I have that is you know everyone knows that everything's fine in moderation and yet we all suck at moderation in some way or another in our life”
Plugged The Comfort Crisis
“my first book the last chapter is about this idea of like not being enough”
Plugged The Comfort Crisis
“one of my favorites from the comfort crisis is this study that found that as people experience fewer and fewer problems we don't um become more satisfied”
Plugged The Comfort Crisis
“something I write about in the comfort crisis is um the human body is good at two things”
Plugged Scarcity Brain
“so as I was reporting the scarcity brain I I ended up reading a lot of strange old texts”