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The Comfort Crisis by Michael Easter | Resilience & Growth

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Book cover of 'The Comfort Crisis' by Michael Easter, featuring a white background, bold black title text, a quote at the top, and an illustration of a snowy mountain seen through an open white door near the bottom.
  • Book cover of 'The Comfort Crisis' by Michael Easter, featuring a white background, bold black title text, a quote at the top, and an illustration of a snowy mountain seen through an open white door near the bottom.
The Comfort Crisis by Michael Easter | Resilience & Growth

The Comfort Crisis by Michael Easter | Resilience & Growth

An exploration of challenge, resilience and our relationship with modern comfort.
$32.00

Why we chose this book

Modern life has become remarkably comfortable, but challenge still has something important to teach us. Michael Easter explores how deliberately stepping beyond the familiar, particularly through time outdoors and physical challenge, can build resilience, perspective and a greater appreciation for everyday life.

TOPIC

Resilience

READING STYLE

Narrative Nonfiction

TNW PILLAR

EXPLORE

About the Book

The Comfort Crisis investigates our increasingly comfortable modern lives through the lens of human evolution, asking whether we have become too accustomed to avoiding physical and mental difficulty.

Michael Easter meets scientists, athletes, researchers and unconventional thinkers exploring how challenge can influence human performance and wellbeing. His journey takes him from the world of professional sports to Bhutan and eventually into the remote Alaskan wilderness.

Along the way, the book explores subjects including physical conditioning, time in nature, creativity, resilience, our relationship with mortality and the psychological value of voluntarily doing difficult things.

Part science writing, part personal-development book and part wilderness adventure, The Comfort Crisis challenges readers to reconsider their relationship with discomfort and discover what may exist beyond the boundaries of an easy life.
Book Details

Author: Michael Easter

Pages: 320

Publication Date: May 11, 2021

Dimensions: 6.2" W × 9.2" H × 1.2" D

Language: English

The Comfort Crisis combines investigative journalism, scientific research and outdoor adventure in an exploration of challenge, resilience and our relationship with modern comfort.
About the Author

Michael Easter is an author, journalist and professor whose work explores the intersection of health, human performance, psychology, behavior and the outdoors.

He is a contributing editor at Men's Health, a columnist for Outside, and a professor at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. His writing has appeared in publications including Scientific American, Esquire, Men's Journal, New York and Vice, and his work has reached readers around the world.

Easter is also the author of Scarcity Brain, which examines how scarcity influences human behavior and modern habits.

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