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The Comfort Crisis
Embrace Discomfort To Reclaim Your Wild, Happy, Healthy Self
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“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 author of The Book of Boundaries
“Michael Easter’s genius is that he puts data around the edges of what we intuitively believe. His work has inspired many to change their lives for the better.”—Dr. Peter Attia, author of Outlive
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 thirty-three-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.
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Release date
May 11, 2021 -
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OverDrive Read
- ISBN: 9780593138779
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- ISBN: 9780593138779
- File size: 2281 KB
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Languages
- English
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Reviews
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April 9, 2021
Journalist Easter (cofounder and co-director, Public Communications Inst., Univ. of Nevada, Las Vegas) takes readers along for his personal, limit-testing journey into the Alaskan wilderness, where he explores the human need for environmental stressors. The author surveys a range of scientists, writers, and entrepreneurs on modern lifestyles' negative effects on physical and mental health. Although his account is interesting and engaging, Easter is speaking primarily from his own point of view, as a white man with a career that gives him both the income and flexibility to travel in search of environmental stress. In Easter's view, the comforts of modern living are themselves stressors; by way of example he describes the abundance of convenience stores and fast-food chains in the United States, and modern reliance on social media and electronic distraction. However, one must consider whether this book's perspective and research are applicable for people of color, people living from paycheck to paycheck, people living in food deserts, or people who are gender non-conforming. VERDICT Despite some flaws, this is an engaging read, recommended for those who enjoy outdoor writing, as well as for armchair (therefore very comfortable) critics of the modern lifestyle.--Rachel M. Minkin, Michigan State Univ. Libs., East Lansing
Copyright 2021 Library Journal, LLC Used with permission.
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