"If you've been looking for something different to level up your
health, fitness, and personal growth, this is it."--Melissa Urban,
Whole30 CEO and New York Times bestselling author
Discover the evolutionary mind and body benefits of living at the edges
of your comfort zone and reconnecting with the wild.
In many ways, we're more comfortable than ever before. But could our
sheltered, temperature-controlled, overfed, underchallenged lives
actually be the leading cause of many our most urgent physical and
mental health issues? In this gripping investigation, award-winning
journalist Michael Easter seeks out off-the-grid visionaries, disruptive
genius researchers, and mind-body conditioning trailblazers who are
unlocking the life-enhancing secrets of a counterintuitive solution:
discomfort.
Easter's journey to understand our evolutionary need to be challenged
takes him to meet the NBA's top exercise scientist, who uses an ancient
Japanese practice to build championship athletes; to the mystical
country of Bhutan, where an Oxford economist and Buddhist leader are
showing the world what death can teach us about happiness; to the
outdoor lab of a young neuroscientist who's found that nature tests our
physical and mental endurance in ways that expand creativity while
taming burnout and anxiety; to the remote Alaskan backcountry on a
demanding thirty-three-day hunting expedition to experience the
rewilding secrets of one of the last rugged places on Earth; and more.
Along the way, Easter uncovers a blueprint for leveraging the power of
discomfort that will dramatically improve our health and happiness, and
perhaps even help us understand what it means to be human. The Comfort
Crisis is a bold call to break out of your comfort zone and explore the
wild within yourself.
