Michael Easter: The Comfort Crisis

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🗓️ 22 December 2021

⏱️ 102 minutes

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Summary

Today’s guest on Danger Close merges the worlds of science, adventure, fitness, philosophy, and psychology in the quest to understand and enhance human performance and happiness.

Michael Easter is a bestselling author, journalist, speaker, and professor in the journalism department at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. His work has appeared in Esquire, Vice, Men's Journal, Outside, Men’s Health, and Scientific American.

Combining the “statistical and mystical” he has made it his mission to travel the world and investigate the experiences and teachings of influential thinkers and those “living at the extremes” and then share his insights through his work. His book and articles have received endorsements from Navy SEALs, Olympic champions, CIA officers, physicians and Pulitzer Prize-winning authors. His book, The Comfort Crisis: Embrace Discomfort to Reclaim Your Wild, Happy, Healthy Self, is on shelves now.

You can follow him on Instagram @michael_easter and can learn more at eastermichael.com.

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0:00.0	This is the Danger Close Podcast, beyond the books with me, Jack Carr.
0:16.9	Welcome to the Danger Close Podcast, an ironclad original presented by Sixth Sour.
0:21.2	My guest today is Michael Easter.
0:23.8	Michael is a journalist and author and professor of journalism at UNLV, Las Vegas.
0:30.8	He's written a book called The Comfort Crisis, which is something I thought about quite a
0:34.6	bit over the course of my life, about the importance of being comfortable, being uncomfortable,
0:40.1	which is something we talk about in the SEAL teams.
0:43.1	The importance of basing adversity, making that a part of your life building on the lessons
0:48.6	that you learn because you're going to get knocked down in life for sure.
0:53.5	If you make it too far without getting knocked down, you're not going to be able to deal
0:57.0	with it quite as well.
0:59.5	So Comfort Crisis, amazing book, had a fantastic time talking to him and now, for their due,
1:06.8	Michael Easter.
1:07.8	Hey Michael, what's happening?
1:12.1	We made it happen.
1:13.1	We made it happen.
1:14.1	Thank you so much for your patience and for switching things around.
1:16.2	I sincerely appreciate it, man.
1:18.1	I'm worried.
1:19.1	How was last week?
1:20.1	Oh, let's see.
1:21.1	What was last week?
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