Hello everybody, welcome back to the show. My guest today is Michael Easter. He's a contributing editor at Men's Health magazine,

columnist for outside magazine and professor at the University of Nevada.

The world is pretty comfortable right now. Between air conditioning, Amazon Prime, Deliveroo, Netflix, Google Maps,

SoftBeds and automatic cars, you can get through big stretches of life without encountering any real discomfort.

Michael has spent years researching why discomfort is so important to our health and fulfillment and how to reintroduce it to your life.

Expect to learn why rights of passage no longer happening in modern life is a huge loss.

How Michael survived an entire month in the Alaskan Arctic, how an annual challenge with a 50% chance of failure can change your life.

What nosy airport security staff can teach us about human nature, why boredom is good for you, how to overcome trauma and much more.

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