Download Audiobook The Comfort Crisis: Embrace Discomfort to Reclaim Your Wild, Happy, Healthy Self by Michael Easter in English

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“In case you’ve been in search of one thing completely different to degree up your well being, health, and private progress, that is it.” (Melissa City, Whole30 CEO and New York Instances best-selling creator)Uncover the evolutionary thoughts and physique advantages of dwelling on the edges of your consolation zone and reconnecting with the wild.In some ways, we’re extra snug than ever earlier than. However might our sheltered, temperature-controlled, overfed, underchallenged lives really be the main reason behind many our most pressing bodily and psychological well being points? On this gripping investigation, award-winning journalist Michael Easter seeks out off-the-grid visionaries, disruptive genius researchers, and mind-body conditioning trailblazers who’re unlocking the life-enhancing secrets and techniques of a counterintuitive answer: discomfort.Easter’s journey to grasp our evolutionary must be challenged takes him to satisfy the NBA’s prime train scientist, who makes use of an historic Japanese apply to construct championship athletes; to the magical nation of Bhutan, the place an Oxford economist and Buddhist chief are displaying the world what dying can train us about happiness; to the outside lab of a younger neuroscientist who’s discovered that nature exams our bodily and psychological endurance in ways in which broaden creativity whereas taming burnout and nervousness; to the distant Alaskan backcountry on a demanding 33-day searching expedition to expertise the rewilding secrets and techniques of one of many final rugged locations on Earth; and extra.Alongside the way in which, Easter uncovers a blueprint for leveraging the ability of discomfort that may dramatically enhance our well being and happiness, and maybe even assist us perceive what it means to be human. The Consolation Disaster is a daring name to interrupt out of your consolation zone and discover the wild inside your self.