441: Too Much Comfort Is Destroying Your Health & What to Do About It | Michael Easter
The Ultimate Health Podcast
Jesse Chappus
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🗓️ 16 November 2021
⏱️ 89 minutes
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Summary
Watch the full video interview on YouTube here: https://bit.ly/michaeleaster441
Michael Easter (IG: @michael_easter) is the author of The Comfort Crisis, a contributing editor at Men’s Health magazine, columnist for Outside magazine, and professor at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas (UNLV).
His work has appeared in more than 60 countries and can also be found in Men’s Journal, Vice, Scientific American, Esquire, and others.
In this episode, we discuss:
- The evolution of The Comfort Crisis
- Time spent outdoors has great mental health benefits
- Michael’s 33-day Alaskan backcountry hunting trip
- Boredom tells us to go do something different
- The nature pyramid
- The feeling of hunting for the 1st time
- The unforgiving weather conditions in the Arctic tundra
- Understanding for one thing to live, another has to die
- How do other cultures view death?
- Traveling to Bhutan to learn the secret to happiness
- The cosmic calendar concept
- Death used to be more intimate
- Rites of passage
- What is a misogi?
- The discomfort of failure
- The benefits of accomplishing a misogi
- Experiencing periods of hunger
- Expanding your comfort zones makes your life better
- Practicing gratitude gives you perspective
- Working for your food
- The big difference between loneliness and solitude
- Block off time every day for solitude
- Balancing screen time
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| 0:00.0 | coming up on the Ultimate Health podcast. |
| 0:02.3 | And when I heard that, I'm like, oh my God. |
| 0:06.5 | Like, we're just like a speck of dust on this thing. |
| 0:09.6 | I mean, we're just like a blink and that freaked me out |
| 0:13.9 | because I'm like, oh my God, like, this is gonna end. |
| 0:16.7 | And like, you know, no one's gonna remember me. |
| 0:20.4 | Like, we have all these stories we tell ourselves about. |
| 0:23.0 | Ever, and so I think it totally freaked me out, |
| 0:25.3 | but I think it did change a lot of how my behavior, |
| 0:30.0 | I mean, I can tell you like that day at work. |
| 0:33.4 | Someone sends me an email that normally would have annoyed me, |
| 0:36.4 | you know, just like, yeah, I'll get to it. |
| 0:38.8 | There's no sense getting worked up about this, you know. |
| 0:41.5 | [♪ OUTRO MUSIC PLAYING [♪ |
| 0:45.4 | Hello and welcome to the Ultimate Health podcast, |
| 0:48.2 | episode 441. |
| 0:50.4 | I'm Jesse Chapis and I'm here to take your help |
| 0:52.5 | to the next level. |
| 0:53.9 | Each week I'll bring you deep conversations |
| 0:56.0 | with health and wellness leaders from around the world. |
| 0:59.0 | This week I'm chatting with Michael Easter. |
| 1:01.1 | He's the author of the comfort crisis, |
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