MICHAEL EASTER | The Comfort Crisis (Ep. 285)

Undaunted.Life: A Man's Podcast by Kyle Thompson

Religion & Spirituality

4.8 • 1.8K Ratings

🗓️ 24 February 2022

⏱️ 77 minutes

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Summary

In this episode, we welcome Michael Easter to the show. He is a journalist and writer, and his work has also appeared in Men’s Health, where he’s a Contributing Editor, and Outside, Men’s Journal, Cosmopolitan, Vice, Esquire, Scientific American, Women’s Health, and others. He’s also the author of the bestseller The Comfort Crisis: Embrace Discomfort to Reclaim Your Wild, Happy, Healthy, Self. In this interview, we discuss why it’s so dangerous that many people in modernity are so focused on comfort, why he decided to embrace discomfort in his life, the month-long backcountry caribou hunt in Alaska that changed his perspective on discomfort, how and why we should create more discomfort in our everyday lives, his appearance on the Joe Rogan Experience, his personal faith, and much more. Let’s get into it… Episode notes and links HERE Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	This is Undaunted Life of Man's Podcast.
0:21.4	I'm your host Kyle Thompson.
0:23.3	Let's get into it.
0:24.3	Hi guys.
0:25.3	Today I have a very special guest on the podcast.
0:26.3	His name is Michael Easter.
0:27.6	So Michael is a professor in the journalism department at UNLV and he also co-founded and
0:32.4	co-directs the Public Communications Institute, which is a think tank at the University of
0:36.4	Nevada in Las Vegas.
0:37.7	And he's also the author of the best-selling book The Comfort Crisis Embrace Discomfort
0:42.1	to Reclaim Your Wild Happy Healthy Self.
0:45.0	So this book was absolutely fantastic.
0:47.2	I just read it here recently, even though it's been out for a little bit.
0:49.9	But in this book, the things he was learning about comfort and why he's comfortable, why
0:54.2	he's drawn to comfort and a life of comfort and why all of us as Americans and really all
0:58.4	of us in modernity are drawn towards comfort and how that's really not a good thing for
1:02.0	us.
1:03.0	And this all kind of led him to do a 33 day caribou hunt in the Alaskan backcountry.
1:08.7	And in the book, he goes into all the detail and in this interview, we go into a ton of
1:12.2	detail on that.
1:13.2	But the interesting thing about this book is it's very similar to another book which I
1:15.8	absolutely love, which is called Professor in the Cage.
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