The Comfort Crisis with Author Michael Easter
The Charlie Kirk Show
Charlie Kirk
4.6 • 65.6K Ratings
🗓️ 31 August 2022
⏱️ 38 minutes
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Summary
Charlie welcomes Michael Easter, author of the phenomenal book that Charlie calls one of the most influential books he’s read, “The Comfort Crisis.” Easter argues that as the industrial revolution has created more comfort—comfort foods, comfort leisure, comfort distraction, and comfort clothes—we have lost touch with the very things that have kept us safe, healthy, connected, and productive. He also argues that we’re actually not bored enough, a phenomenon that Easter argues is the brain’s mechanism for determining that our activities are not productive enough, and it’s time to move on to a better task. What are implications for social connection? What does the comfort crisis tell us about our diet and our eating patterns? What does it mean for our sense of happiness and joy? And what can we do, including time in nature, to restore the rhythms of our original design?
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, everybody. Today on the Charlie Kirk Show, you are probably too comfortable. It's time to get |
| 0:04.5 | uncomfortable. If you are unhappy, it's probably because you're spending too much time on the couch. This book is the most influential book of this calendar year that I have read and I've read quite a few. I love reading. I know you do too. We present a lot of books to you. So I think you really enjoy this conversation by Michael Easter, Comfort Crisis. If you have a son or |
| 0:22.9 | daughter that is depressed, if you are depressed, if you're anxious, this book, I think, might help you. It has a lot of insights. Michael talks about how comfort is something that is a new phenomenon. He does mention that he believes we were evolved. I |
| 0:39.5 | didn't correct him on air. I didn't find it to be appropriate, but I did say at the end, I believe we |
| 0:43.4 | are designed by God. So that is probably just something I just want you to know before listening to |
| 0:49.0 | this program. I didn't feel necessary to chop up our conversation there. It's just a little distinction or |
| 0:53.2 | disagreement, not necessary to say on our conversation there. It's just a little distinction or disagreement, |
| 0:54.6 | not necessary to say on air. But regardless of that, put that aside, we do both agree that |
| 1:02.1 | human beings, at least in the modern context, our species are not built for what we're currently living through, sitting on our tail, doing nothing and staring at a screen. It's making us deeply unhappy. I think you'll be blessed by this conversation. I know I was. Email me, freedom at charliekirk.com. Support the Charliekirk dot com. That's charliekirk.com. That's charliecirk.com and get involved with TurningPoint USA at T.P.USA.com. That is TP.USA.com. So's Charlie Kirk.com slash support and get involved with Turning Point USA at |
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