Overcome Your Comfort Crisis / Joe De Sena & Michael Easter
The Hard Way w/ Joe De Sena
Spartan Races
4.7 • 870 Ratings
🗓️ 25 May 2021
⏱️ 34 minutes
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Summary
We've been screaming it from the mountaintops for years - "get uncomfortable!" Today Joe De Sena, founder of Spartan, talks with Michael Easter about his new book "The Comfort Crisis." Hear his take on what it means to Spartan Up, the science behind discomfort & boredom, and a couple of great adventure stories.
Michael Easter is the author of The Comfort Crisis, a contributing editor at Men's Health magazine, columnist for Outside magazine, and professor at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas.
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Host: Joe De Sena
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| 0:00.0 | We have these adaptations that we developed over millions of years to always try and be comfortable because in our past environments those drives used to keep us alive. |
| 0:10.0 | But now that we've engineered this world of just constant comfort, |
| 0:13.2 | they're backfiring. |
| 0:14.1 | And you can see the downsides of this, |
| 0:15.9 | you know, having too much comfort or being overly comfortable |
| 0:19.8 | too often, it's associated with, you know know our rising rates of obesity and people being |
| 0:26.1 | overweight is like 70% now it's associated with poor mental health |
| 0:31.5 | outcomes people today are spending like 95% of their time |
| 0:35.3 | indoors. The average step count is around 4,000 steps a day and this is radically |
| 0:40.2 | different than we used to live and it explains a lot of why people aren't as |
| 0:44.4 | healthy as they used to be. |
| 0:47.0 | Welcome to the Spartan Up Podcast with Joe Descena, founder and CEO of Spartan Race. |
| 0:54.9 | We are talking about overcoming obstacles. |
| 0:59.8 | The same way we teach people to get over obstacles on the course. |
| 1:03.0 | We will teach you here on a Spartan Up podcast to get over obstacles in your mind. |
| 1:07.0 | We've been screaming it from the Mountain Top Street years. |
| 1:11.0 | Get uncomfortable. |
| 1:12.0 | Today Joe talks with Michael Easter about his new book, The |
| 1:15.0 | Comfort Crisis. Hear his take on what it means to Spartan up on the science behind |
| 1:19.7 | discomfort and boredom and a couple of adventure stories you won't want to miss. |
| 1:25.2 | This episode of Spartan Up is brought to you by Amazfit. |
| 1:28.4 | From May 18th to May 31st Spartanup listeners can head to US. amaze fit.com |
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