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Easter M. The Comfort Crisis: Embrace Discomfort To Reclaim Your Wild, Happy, Healthy Self. New York: Rodale Books; 2021. 320 p.
Why we cite it
A narrative nonfiction work arguing that modern comfort undermines physical and mental health. Framed around a 33-day hunting expedition in Arctic Alaska, Easter draws on interviews with scientists, athletes, and researchers to make the case that deliberately seeking discomfort — physical challenge, time in nature, boredom, hunger — is essential for health, creativity, and meaning.
About the author
Michael Easter is a New York Times bestselling author, contributing editor at Men’s Health, columnist for Outside, and professor of journalism at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas (UNLV), where he co-founded and co-directs the Public Communications Institute. His journalism appears in 60+ countries in publications including Scientific American, Esquire, and Vice. He writes the “Two Percent” newsletter on Substack, the #1 health and wellness newsletter with over 100,000 subscribers. His second book, Scarcity Brain, is also a NYT bestseller.
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