Learn To Embrace Discomfort - Michael Easter - #438

**Chris Williamson** (0:00)
Hello, everybody. Welcome back to the show. My guest today is Michael Easter. He's a contributing editor at Men's Health Magazine, columnist for Outside Magazine and professor at the University of Nevada. The world is pretty comfortable right now. Between air conditioning, Amazon Prime, Deliveroo, Netflix, Google Maps, soft beds and automatic cars, you can get through big stretches of life without encountering any real discomfort. But Michael has spent years researching why discomfort is so important to our health and fulfillment and how to reintroduce it to your life. Expect to learn why rites of passage no longer happening in modern life is a huge loss, how Michael survived an entire month in the Alaskan Arctic, how an annual challenge with a 50% chance of failure can change your life, what nosy airport security staff can teach us about human nature, why boredom is good for you, how to overcome trauma and much more. Don't forget, if you want to get access to the Modern Wisdom reading list, all you need to do is go to chriswillex.com/books. You can download it there. It is free and it has a list of 100 of the most interesting and impactful books that I've ever found. Fiction and non-fiction, all sorted and organized and looking beautiful. Go and get access to it immediately, chriswillex.com/books.
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