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The Comfort Crisis
- Embrace Discomfort to Reclaim Your Wild, Happy, Healthy Self
- Narrated by: Michael Easter
- Length: 8 hrs and 52 mins
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The Comfort Crisis
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Publisher's Summary
“If you've been looking for something different to level up your health, fitness, and personal growth, this is it.” (Melissa Urban, Whole30 CEO and New York Times best-selling author)
Discover the evolutionary mind and body benefits of living at the edges of your comfort zone and reconnecting with the wild.
In many ways, we’re more comfortable than ever before. But could our sheltered, temperature-controlled, overfed, underchallenged lives actually be the leading cause of many our most urgent physical and mental health issues? In this gripping investigation, award-winning journalist Michael Easter seeks out off-the-grid visionaries, disruptive genius researchers, and mind-body conditioning trailblazers who are unlocking the life-enhancing secrets of a counterintuitive solution: discomfort.
Easter’s journey to understand our evolutionary need to be challenged takes him to meet the NBA’s top exercise scientist, who uses an ancient Japanese practice to build championship athletes; to the mystical country of Bhutan, where an Oxford economist and Buddhist leader are showing the world what death can teach us about happiness; to the outdoor lab of a young neuroscientist who’s found that nature tests our physical and mental endurance in ways that expand creativity while taming burnout and anxiety; to the remote Alaskan backcountry on a demanding 33-day hunting expedition to experience the rewilding secrets of one of the last rugged places on Earth; and more.
Along the way, Easter uncovers a blueprint for leveraging the power of discomfort that will dramatically improve our health and happiness, and perhaps even help us understand what it means to be human. The Comfort Crisis is a bold call to break out of your comfort zone and explore the wild within yourself.
Critic Reviews
“Changes the way we think about the modern world and how everyday conveniences are eroding our understanding of what it mean to be human.” (Richard Dorment, editor in chief, Men’s Health)
“I read The Comfort Crisis in three straight sittings and was so motivated and inspired that I immediately made changes to my daily routines. Two months later, I've never been fitter, more self-confident, or happier. If you've been looking for something different to level up your health, fitness, and personal growth, THIS IS IT.” (Melissa Urban, Whole30 CEO and six-time New York Times best-selling author)
“Entertaining and enlightening, Easter’s quest for a ‘rewilded’ diet, creative boredom, and other sensation - restoring discomforts is chock-full of solid science as well as a rollicking adventure.” (Dan Fagin, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Toms River: A Story of Science and Salvation)
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- VB
- 03-08-2021
Themes wonderfully woven within
Love the way this was written - you’re engaged with the story/ies and themes wonderfully woven within each story
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- Robert Nichols
- 05-06-2023
Actually inspiring
This book has prompted me to do stuff and I’m doing it. Great book. It’s stuck in my mind for quite a while now.
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- Amazon Customer
- 31-05-2024
eye-opening and inspiring
one of my new favourite books which I will no doubt listen to more than once. a perfect combination of inspiring and intriguing story coupled with science and research narrated in a captivating way
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- L R
- 17-06-2024
Practical & encouraging book with a pinch of humor!
A unique book that combines the authors personal story, statistical data, and interesting information relevant to the topics addressed. It explains the benefits and rewards of getting out of one’s comfort zones.
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- Anonymous User
- 15-07-2024
Worth a Listen
Well written and spoken, and weaves a good narrative between the authors experience as a journey with additional interviews and side-passages throughout. The single-sided representation of the book makes it feel excessively preachy at times, but the core idea of the book is certainly an engaging topic
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- Sean James Finn
- 17-06-2021
Completely absorbing
Couldn't stop listening. This book has made me want to take a new direction in life, thank you Michael.
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- Jacques Lubbe
- 27-09-2021
Must read
This book was not what I expected. I really enjoyed it, sometimes the writer can get a bit intense with the drama but not enough to rune it. It's touches on some great health and well being facts in a world filled with information pollution, debunking some widely accepted "facts", like processed food is bad for you, the writer points out, with help from a specialist, that most foods are processed and there's a lot more to it than this "matter of fact" rule.
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- Anonymous User
- 13-10-2021
Everyone will get something out of this
The parallel story telling of Michaels first hand experiences in Alaska combined with research backed monologues made for an exceptionally thought entertaining book.
This book challenges a lot of the defaults of everyday life and does a great job of breaking down common misconceptions about health, exercise and the mind in the modern world.
If you like the hard truth on things and aren’t afraid to cop a bit on the chin, you’ll love this book. And if you don’t, you should also listen because either way it will challenge the way you think.
I’ve found the book has helped me rekindle my appreciation for nature that was lost over my time at university. The book has helped me further align some values and challenged others in the way I think has been exceptionally important as I graduate and think about the future.
Highly recommend.
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- Katrina Root
- 09-09-2021
great book
wise and well researched. I recommeng tbis book to all who feel modern life isnt quite right.
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- Kindle Customer
- 10-10-2022
Life changing
Recommended by a favourite YouTuber, Linnea, this book Haa really opened my eyes about many thing I've taken for granted.
The heavy facts entwined with an engaging, thrilling story was a refreshing way to consume information.
Very well written, thank you sir.
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