Michael Easter: Recognizing Scarcity Mindset and Shedding Habits that Don't Serve You
The Ready State Podcast
Kelly Starrett & Juliet Starrett
4.9 • 623 Ratings
🗓️ 25 July 2024
⏱️ 65 minutes
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As a New York Times bestselling author, Michael Easter has built a career traveling the globe to uncover practical insights that enhance people's lives. From war zones to the Arctic to the Bolivian jungle, he's interviewed thousands of experts, including Nobel laureates and world-class athletes, and distilled their wisdom into science-backed strategies to help people optimize their lives. Michael's mission is to make these insights accessible, publishing them in bestselling books like Scarcity Brain and The Comfort Crisis, and sharing the latest in his newsletter, 2% with Michael Easter. His work is endorsed by leading institutions, from professional sports teams to the military, transforming how they approach health, performance, and success. Ultimately, Michael Easter's ideas have empowered millions to lead healthier, happier, and more fulfilling lives.
In this episode we take a deep dive into how a scarcity mindset can show up in many aspects of our modern lives and Michael shares insights on how to shed habits that are not serving us in the long term.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey everyone, I'm Dr. Kelly Starrett. |
| 0:07.8 | And I'm Juliette. |
| 0:09.0 | And you're listening to The Ready State Podcast. |
| 0:12.7 | You got it. |
| 0:14.5 | You're going to stop it. |
| 0:17.4 | This episode of the Ready State podcast is brought to you by Sleep Me. |
| 0:21.7 | We were just traveling. |
| 0:22.9 | We were in Southern California, a little bit hot. |
| 0:25.1 | It was 109 driving back up. |
| 0:27.2 | And one of the things I notice is that when I'm in a, I'm just call it regular bed, dead bed. |
| 0:33.2 | My legs get so hot. |
| 0:35.2 | I sit with an eye mask and I soaked out my eye mask the night. |
| 0:38.6 | Where I woke up and I was like, this is gross. And the reason is I normally sleep on a chili |
| 0:43.2 | pad and my sleep scores reflect the fact that I'm not a thousand degrees. And what's cool about the |
| 0:48.7 | chili pad cooling system is that we can each customize our own sleep environment. So I have mine on my |
| 0:53.7 | side and you have yours on your side and we can set it to our own sleep environment. So I have mine on my side and you have yours |
| 0:54.6 | on your side and we can set it to our own separate bespoke temperatures. What's your bespoke temperature |
| 0:59.1 | on three? One, two, three, 80. Oh, see, I've been going to 80. Check this out. Chilipad works |
| 1:05.0 | on your existing mattress. I think that's crucial because there's a lot of systems out there that |
| 1:09.9 | are like, hey, you have to entirely replace your mattress. We have the mattress of all mattresses, the jam of all jams. And this slips right on top. It's so great. We have been sleeping in it almost a decade, and it changes my scores. When I was traveling recently to Europe, a couple times my ring was like, you have a fever. And I was like, no, I don't have a fever. I'm just so hot at night. And this is the game changer. Yeah. And I mean, really, we've talked about this over the years, but this chili pad system has really dramatically improved both of our sleep. But Kelly, in particular, because he's such a naturally hot sleeper. And remember, if you can sleep better, we can recover faster, you can improve sort of things like brain fog. And we know that sleeping better |
| 1:50.0 | and actually deep sleep correlates well to decreasing injury risk. Visit www.com.com |
| 1:55.0 | to get your chili pad and save up to $315 with code TRS. |
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