Episode · The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett · 2023-11-02
Books mentioned on 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?
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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The Comfort Crisis
The Comfort Crisis by Michael Easter is a critically acclaimed exploration of how modern human environments have eliminated healthy physical friction and what people can do to reclaim their well-being.
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”
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Scarcity Brain
Scarcity Brain by Michael Easter is an insightful book that explores why humans struggle with moderation and urges readers to rewire their craving mindsets to thrive with enough in a modern, hyper-abundant world.
Discussed“but in your second book scarcity brain you talk about food again specifically you talk quite a lot about snacking”
Other mentions in this episode (9) — ad reads, self-promotion and passing references, never counted
Own book 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”
Own book 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”
Own book 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”
Own book Scarcity Brain
“I mean I write about it in scarcity brain about um addiction and how we think about it”
Own book 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”
Own book The Comfort Crisis
“my first book the last chapter is about this idea of like not being enough”
Own book 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”
Own book The Comfort Crisis
“something I write about in the comfort crisis is um the human body is good at two things”
Own book Scarcity Brain
“so as I was reporting the scarcity brain I I ended up reading a lot of strange old texts”