The Comfort Crisis: Embrace Discomfort To Reclaim Your Wild, Happy, Healthy Self

<b><b>“If you've been looking for something different to level up your health, fitness, and personal growth, <i>this is it</i>.”—Melissa Urban, Whole30 CEO and <i>New York Times</i> bestselling author</b><br><br>Discover the evolutionary mind and body benefits of living at the edges of your comfort zone and reconnecting with the wild.</b> 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. <i>The Comfort Crisis</i> is a bold call to break out of your comfort zone and explore the wild within yourself.