The Comfort Crisis

Michael Easter’s The Comfort Crisis is available on Audible as a 8 hrs 52 mins unabridged audiobook, narrated by Michael Easter.

Publisher’s Summary

Discover the evolutionary mind and body benefits of living at the edges of your comfort zone and reconnecting with the wild—from the New York Times bestselling author of Scarcity Brain.

“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 author of The Book of Boundaries

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.

Audiobook Details

• Narrated by: Michael Easter
• Length: 8 hrs 52 mins
• Publisher: Random House Audio
• Release year: 2021
• Audible category: Health & Wellness / Fitness, Diet & Nutrition / Exercise & Fitness

Listener Ratings

The Comfort Crisis holds an average listener rating of 4.8/5 from 8196 Audible ratings.

On Audible, ratings for this title break down into narration performance and story separately:

• Performance (narration): 4.7/5
• Story: 4.8/5
• 5-star ratings: 85% of all ratings

What Audible Listeners Are Saying

5/5 stars — “beyond expectations”
there’s always been this inexplicable feeling whenever I would come home from a big adventure. I’ve tried forever to explain to people why I go do those crazy things or how it makes me feel. this book is everything I wish I could have said and everything I’ve been experiencing and exactly why I get out there. this book is beautifully written never mind the great story about his Arctic adventure, and it’s all backed up by science. without being boring. I wish I could give this book a 10 and I wish I could give a copy to every person who struggles and can’t explain their own anxiety.

— CassieM, Audible listener

5/5 stars — “Amazing Perspective “
I absolutely loved this book!, and completely agree with the comfort stages our society has reached and how they are bad for our mental health , This book has changed my views in a lot of things for the better, so glad i stumbled across it

— Chris, Audible listener

5/5 stars — “Amazing story and scientific data”
I had no idea when audible suggested this book to me that I would like it. I was out of ideas on how to spend my credit do I went with it and got this one. I had no idea that many of the people I follow and things that I do (go ruck) would be cited in this book. It was fascinating!

— J.R. Adams, Audible listener

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