In this episode, we welcome Michael Easter to the show. He is a journalist and writer, and his work has also appeared in Men’s Health, where he’s a Contributing Editor, and Outside, Men’s Journal, Cosmopolitan, Vice, Esquire, Scientific American, Women’s Health, and others. He’s also the author of the bestseller The Comfort Crisis: Embrace Discomfort to Reclaim Your Wild, Happy, Healthy, Self. In this interview, we discuss why it’s so dangerous that many people in modernity are so focused on comfort, why he decided to embrace discomfort in his life, the month-long backcountry caribou hunt in Alaska that changed his perspective on discomfort, how and why we should create more discomfort in our everyday lives, his appearance on the Joe Rogan Experience, his personal faith, and much more. Let’s get into it…
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