Two Percent with Michael Easter Podcast Transcripts
Michael Easter · 53 episodes with transcripts
Lessons from the frontiers of health, psychology, thought, and human experience. Hosted by Michael Easter—New York Times bestselling author of The Comfort Crisis and Scarcity Brain. New episodes are released twice each week.
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Never Giving Up Can Hold You Back | Lindsay Crouse
October 8, 2026
Michael Easter (0:00)
You ever have days where you just want to quit at all your job, completely delete your email, maybe drop your kids off at kindergarten and not pick them up for like two weeks? I think we all do. Now, you might be thinking that this is going to be an episode about why you should persist. After all, I did write The…
All right. Well, Lindsay Crouse, you are a former New York Times writer, editor, producer, lifelong competitive distance runner. I liked hearing that. You're the author of the new book, The Case for Quitting, The Surprising Benefits of Opting Out. So we're going to talk all about quitting. We'll talk about when it's…
Lindsay Crouse (1:12)
Yeah, I think none of us can quite pronounce it right. But CSU is the ability to push through really hard things, especially when things are difficult. And I mean, Finland, if you look at the World Happiness Report, year after year, it lands at the top of the list. It's one of the happiest, as the happiest country…
And so that's what I found really fascinating in writing this book, is that CSU is in some ways an analogy for perseverance. And obviously perseverance is essential. That's why so many societies, including Finland, holds it in such high regard. But then there are these psychologists, Finnish psychologists, that have…
Michael Easter (2:25)
So it may have benefited the Finns in terms of their happiness, just because they're like, we've weathered a lot of metaphorical storms and we've come out on the other side and it's kind of given us this perspective. Where in that Finnish research did you find that it actually had some downsides?
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