Confronting the Comfort Crisis with Michael Easter—Author and Adventurer

The Aggressive Life with Brian Tome

Crossroads

Christianity, Religion & Spirituality

4.9 • 756 Ratings

🗓️ 14 September 2021

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

The path of least resistance just might be the very thing killing you. Author and adventurer, Michael Easter, took a deep dive into discomfort and discovered something extraordinary—it made his life better. After more than a month in the most rural parts of Alaska, he came home a different man: more focused, happier, and more fulfilled. He continues to pull on that string and his research into discomfort, and the power of the outdoors, is invigorating.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the aggressive life.
0:08.3	You know what this podcast is not called?
0:11.0	It's not called the comfortable life.
0:13.0	It's not called the easy life.
0:14.8	It's not called the life you've always wanted.
0:17.2	It's called the aggressive life.
0:19.3	What's it mean to be aggressive?
0:22.9	It means there's something that's going to take an inordinate amount of energy for you to get it. That means you're going to have to
0:28.3	actually try harder than you are right now, something that you don't want to do, something that is
0:34.0	very uncomfortable. That's why you're not doing it right now. The things you're
0:38.6	doing right now are never being aggressive. That's stuff that's now in your sweet spot. It's the new
0:43.5	thing. It's the difficult thing. The thing that makes us uncomfortable is where our aggression
0:48.2	needs to be focused. You know, as the aggressive life podcast has grown, it has been really interesting to see how many people want to be on the podcast.
1:00.2	And we have publishers and authors contacting us regularly saying, oh, you should have my guest.
1:05.2	You should have my guests.
1:05.8	And we listen because we're always looking for good guests.
1:08.2	That's a good thing to do.
1:09.6	We want to bring you the best content we can. Then something really weird happens every once in a while. Like, a book that I've
1:17.3	read on my own that has nothing to do with being pre-ordered so I could publicize it. In my own
1:24.4	personal time, I run across a book that I love, love, love, love, and like,
1:30.5	I got this guy in my podcast. His name is Michael Easter. He wrote a book called The Comfort Crisis,
1:37.4	Embrace Discomfort to Reclaim Your Wild, Happy, Healthy Self. Welcome Michael Easter to The Aggressive
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