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Every book Michael Easter recommended on podcasts
Books recommended by Michael Easter
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The great shark hunt
The great shark hunt by Hunter S.
Discussed“and then i read you know the great shark hunt and it was like holy [ __ ] / What is this”
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The Hero with a Thousand Faces
The Hero with a Thousand Faces by Joseph Campbell is a landmark work of comparative mythology that investigates the universal pattern of the monomyth, tracing the archetypal hero's journey across global cultures and ancient traditions.
Discussed“look at joseph campbell i'm going to mess up this quote / But in his uh hero 1000 faces he's got this line”
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Books Michael Easter wrote
Appearances
| Episode | Podcast | Date | Books |
|---|---|---|---|
| Joe Rogan Experience #1649 - Michael Easter | The Joe Rogan Experience | 2024-06-27 | 2 |
Other mentions (6: passing, ad reads, own books)
Own book The Comfort Crisis
“well you have a problem with comfort the comfort crisis is it really a crisis i argue that it is a crisis one i don't have a problem with comfort uh i do have a problem with always being comfortable always leaning into comfort which is what we're doing now”
Own book The Comfort Crisis
“but at the same time i think and i argue in the book the comfort crisis that we need these moments that push back at us and we need to sort of investigate these discomforts that we used to face in our evolutionary past”
Own book The Comfort Crisis
“but at the same time i think and i argue in the book the comfort crisis that we need these moments that push back at us”
Own book The Comfort Crisis
“anyway back to this push back against your book um you're writing about something that pretty much most people agree yeah i think but it's like do we really know how to get back into discomfort and like in the book i i argue that there are a handful of fundamental discomforts that we lost over time as the world”
Own book The Comfort Crisis
“so in the book too i talk about you hear all this stuff that's like break up with your phone less time on your phone here are a thousand different ways to use your phone less”
Own book The Comfort Crisis
“so i mean i the the way that the book is written as i tell this story of this hunt that i did in the arctic and that's the overarching narrative and as i'm facing these specific discomforts we used to face as we evolved then i sort of peel off and then i investigate each one in different sections”