1KHO 89: As the World has Become More Comfortable, We've Lost a Lot of the Things That Used to Keep Us Healthy | Michael Easter, The Comfort Crisis | The 1000 Hours Outside Podcast, S3 E62

The 1000 Hours Outside Podcast

Ginny Yurich

Parenting, Kids & Family

4.9 • 1.7K Ratings

🗓️ 1 November 2022

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Award-winning journalist and author of "The Comfort Crisis: Embrace Discomfort to Reclaim Your Wild, Happy, Healthy Self" joins us to talk about everything from whether our happiness depends on being comfortable, how to expand our sense of time, how much silence we need for our well-being, overcoming alcoholism, and why rucking is arguably the best exercise for women. There are SO many nuggets in this one! Learn more about Michael Easter here: https://eastermichael.com/ Sign up for the 2 Percent Newsletter here: https://unique-painter-9003.ck.page/441934d2f0 Order your copy of The Comfort Crisis here: https://amzn.to/3NlPK2p Pre-order your copy of 1000 Hours Outside, Activities to Match Screen Time with Green Time here: https://geni.us/eakrZNw Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Let's roll. Welcome to the 1000 Hours Outside Podcast. My name is Jenny Chirich and I can't even believe I get to sit across from Michael Easter to talk about his book, The Comfort Crisis, which has sold over 100,000 copies.
0:14.0	Welcome!
0:15.0	Thanks so much for having me.
0:16.1	I'm really excited to be here in the chat.
0:18.0	I love the book.
0:18.8	I learned so much from it, and it was such a cool read the format that you have so but before we dive in can you just tell us a little bit about yourself your background you have done so many things author professor
0:29.9	adventurer tell us about you yeah so I actually grew up in Utah.
0:35.2	Then I went into journalism.
0:38.6	So I went to, when I was in undergrad, I thought I wanted to be something with like natural resources maybe and then I
0:45.0	realized I really like to write I'd always been raised around books and stuff and so I
0:49.2	went to grad school for journalism I worked in. I was on staff at a big magazine for maybe seven,
0:55.9	eight years and yeah, and then I took a job at UNLV here in Las Vegas in the journalism department teaching so I'm a professor there and so half of my job is
1:07.7	Professing teaching and then the other half is continuing to write so it's a it's a good little setup. Yeah, I like it. Do you find that a lot of your
1:15.6	students have read your book? A handful have. I mean more of them have heard me on
1:20.8	podcasts or seen me in YouTube clips stuff like that but I actually did it was
1:26.2	interesting I taught a adventure journalism class over the summer so I would always hate it when I would always hate it when professors assigned their
1:36.5	own books but I'm like no you should like I can't like I can tell you why I did certain things like it's going to be a better teaching experience so I know at least at least 20 of my students have read it who were in that class.
1:50.0	That's a start. I Adventure journalism is a genre that I didn't really realize and I follow Alistair Humphreys who has a similar vibe to you.
2:01.0	He's like this cool looking guy and he does all these cool
2:03.4	adventures and he writes about them and then he also reads a lot of books in that
2:08.6	vein and I didn't really realize that there were so many books out there like that
2:12.4	and so I have joined in I just read a book really realized that there were so many books out there like that.
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