#HURDLEMOMENT: An Expert On How to Get Comfortable Being Uncomfortable
Hurdle with Emily Abbate
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4.9 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 23 June 2021
⏱️ 31 minutes
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Today I’m chatting with Michael Easter, author of the new book The Comfort Crisis, Embrace Discomfort To Reclaim Your Wild, Happy, Healthy Self. He’s a contributing editor at Men’s Health magazine, columnist for Outside magazine, and professor at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. He's traveled the world researching the benefits of why it's important to get comfortable with the uncomfortable — going as far as trekking up to the Arctic to do just that. In today's episode, he shares his biggest takeaways from the other professors, adventurers, and researchers he spoke to along the way, helping us gain a better understanding of why we must break through the walls of our comfort zones and what to do if you get stuck along the way.
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| 0:00.0 | humans have way more potential than we realize. |
| 0:05.1 | So by doing something hard, |
| 0:06.2 | when you think you really can't do it, |
| 0:07.9 | we learn a lot about ourselves. |
| 0:09.5 | And there's some like evolutionary machinery |
| 0:11.4 | that really gets triggered. |
| 0:12.8 | Our natural environment used to show us these sorts of challenges |
| 0:17.0 | all the time, because life was tough. |
| 0:19.3 | We had to do things like hunt and gather |
| 0:22.0 | and move great distances. |
| 0:24.0 | But nowadays we don't really have that. |
| 0:25.5 | So I think we do need these sort of moments |
| 0:27.3 | that push back at us and teach us something about ourselves. |
| 0:29.8 | Hey everyone, Emily, about to hear you're listening |
| 0:46.1 | to another installment of hurdle moment from hurdle. |
| 0:49.2 | Today I am talking all about how to get better |
| 0:52.3 | at getting comfortable with young comfortable |
| 0:55.2 | with Michael Easter. |
| 0:56.6 | He is the new author of the comfort crisis. |
| 0:59.4 | He's also a contributing editor at men's health |
| 1:02.1 | magazine, a calmness for outside magazine |
| 1:04.5 | and a professor at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. |
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