Michael Easter is a contributing editor at Men's Health magazine, columnist for Outside magazine and Professor at the University of Nevada.

The world is pretty comfortable right now. Between air conditioning, Amazon Prime, Deliveroo, Netflix, Google Maps, soft beds and automatic cars, you can get through big stretches of life without encountering any real discomfort. Michael has spent years researching why discomfort is so important to our health and fulfilment, and how to reintroduce it to your life.

Expect to learn why rites of passage no longer happening in modern life is a huge loss, how Michael survived an entire month in the Alaskan Arctic, how an annual challenge with a 50% chance of failure can change your life, what nosey airport security staff can teach us about human nature, why boredom is good for you, how to overcome trauma and much more...

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00:00 Intro
01:16 Michael’s Arctic Experience
07:56 Differences Between Elected & Unelected Discomfort
16:29 Problems Expand to Fill the Room Assigned for Them
28:32 Rites of Passage in Cultures
40:14 The Doctor who Fixed the Patriots
50:10 Curing the Discomfort of Boredom
1:02:55 How to Begin Mastering Discomfort
1:05:32 Where to Find Michael

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