Episode #312
Counter “problem creep” by intentionally seeking perspective through service and challenging experiences that highlight how good life already is.
Do an annual Misogi—an outdoor challenge with a personal 50–50 chance of success and the rule “don’t die”—to expand perceived limits; even failure delivers growth.
Reintroduce boredom by unplugging daily (e.g., a phone-free walk) to boost creativity, presence, and well-being, with nature amplifying the benefits.
The secret to having it all is knowing that you already do.
You should have a 50-50 shot of finishing it.
I think we need to reintroduce ourselves to boredom.
Michael Easter is the author of The Comfort Crisis: Embrace Discomfort To Reclaim Your Wild, Happy, Healthy Self as well as a writer and editor for Men’s Health and Outside magazines, and a professor at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas.
He is a leading voice on how humans can integrate modern science and evolutionary wisdom for improved health, meaning, and performance in life and at work. He travels the globe to embed himself with brilliant but often overlooked scientists, thinkers, and people living at the extremes and shares the best of his findings and experiences in books, articles, and other media.
Michael’s work has appeared in over 60 countries and has been endorsed by some of the world’s largest magazines, past directors of the CIA and Navy SEALs, gold medal-winning Olympians, leading physicians, Pulitzer Prize-winning authors, Buddhist and environmental leaders, and more.
In this episode of Success Through Failure, Michael will shed light on why we need “fundamental discomforts” in our lives in order to unleash our full potential.
Like what F3 Founder Dave Redding said, maybe deep in the hearts of men, we don’t want everything to be so easy.
Listen now and let’s go deep into the science of comforts and discomforts with Michael Easter.
