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

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

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Easter, Michael

Mental Health

Rodale Books

Are&nbsp;we&nbsp;hardwired to crave&nbsp;more? From food and stuff to information and influence,&nbsp;why can't we ever get enough? Michael Easter, author of The Comfort Crisis and one of the world's leading experts on behavior change, shows that the problem isn't you. The problem is your scarcity mindset, left over from our ancient ancestors. They had to constantly seek and consume to survive because vital survival tools like food, material goods, information, and power were scarce and hard to find. But with our modern ability to easily fulfill our ancient desire for more, our hardwired "scarcity brain" is now backfiring. And new technology and institutions--from dating and entertainment apps to our food and economic systems--are exploiting our scarcity brain. They're bombarding us with subversive "scarcity cues," subtle triggers that lead us into low-reward cravings that hurt us in the long run. Scarcity cues can be direct and all-encompassing, like a sagging economy. Or they can be subtle and slight, like our neighbor buying a shiny new car. Easter traveled the world to consult with remarkable innovators and leading scientists who are finding surprising solutions for our scarcity brain. He discovered simple tactics that can move us towards an abundance mindset, cement healthy habits, and allow us to live our lives to the fullest and appreciate what we have, including how to: <ul> <li>Detect hidden scarcity cues to stop cravings before they start, from a brilliant slot machine designer in a Las Vegas casino laboratory</li> <li>Turn alone time into the ultimate happiness hack, from artisanal coffee-making Benedictine monks</li> <li>Reignite your exploration gene for a more exciting and fulfilling life, from an astronaut onboard the International Space Station</li> <li>Reframe how we think about and fix addiction and bad habits, from Iraq's chief psychiatrist</li> <li>Recognize when you have enough, from a woman who left a million-dollar career path to adventure the world</li> </ul> Our world is overloaded with everything we're built to crave. The fix for scarcity brain isn't to blindly aim for less. It's to understand why we crave more in the first place, shake our worst habits, and use what we already have better. Then we can experience life in a new way--a more satisfying way.

Scarcity Brain: Fix Your Craving Mindset and Rewire Your Habits to Thrive with Enough

Self-Help

Happiness

Men's Health magazine's #1 personal trainer delivers cutting-edge, high-intensity workouts to help you pack serious muscle and become unstoppably fit. From the man responsible for the success of the gym that trained the actors in the movie 300 comes cutting-edge fitness strategies, 100 workouts, and a training plan that has successfully transformed A-list actors and actresses, elite special-forces soldiers, all-star athletes, and everyday men and women. With Bobby Maximus’s guidance you too can become one of the most insanely fit people the world has ever seen. The diets and workouts that promise easy results in minutes per day have tricked masses into wasting their money on false promises. Supplements, smoothies, and 4-minute workouts aren’t getting people any fitter. Getting that shredded body requires real commitment and real work—and Bobby can show you how. Maximus Body features circuit-style workouts that will push you to your limits and work your whole body. With a plethora of exercises like “Don’t Ask Me About Your Abs,” that work your core with a combination of sit ups, push ups, pull ups, and even leg raises, you can develop an exercise routine that fits your needs. Whether you are overweight and trying to get back into shape, or a high-level athlete trying to gain that extra edge, Maximus Body offers up thousands of once-secret ways to burn fat, add lean muscle, reveal a shredded 8-pack, and build mind-bending physical fitness.

Maximus Body: The Physical and Mental Training Plan That Shreds Your Body, Builds Serious Strength, and Makes You Unstoppably Fit

Maximus, Bobby

Sports & Outdoors

Hoy, más que nunca, vivimos en condiciones de extrema comodidad. Nunca nos quedamos sin comida, no sufrimos temperaturas extremas y nuestro principal reto es alcanzar y mantener una relativa estabilidad. Sin embargo, este estilo de vida podría ser la principal causa de todos nuestros males físicos y mentales. En este libro, el galardonado periodista Michael Easter emprende un viaje en solitario a una de las zonas más salvajes del planeta para descubrirnos un gran secreto de nuestro bienestar: la incomodidad. A lo largo de su viaje se cruzará con ermitaños, aventureros, monjes y científicos que le desvelarán una de las grandes paradojas que rige nuestras vidas: por qué alejarnos del confort nos sienta tan bien. Desde las prácticas ancestrales japonesas que utilizan los atletas de élite hasta los ritos iniciáticos de las tribus más aisladas del mundo, pasando por los últimos avances de la neurociencia sobre el cansancio y la ansiedad.&nbsp; La trampa del confort demuestra por qué exponernos a condiciones límite puede ayudarnos a reconectar con nuestra naturaleza más primitiva y alcanzar así una vida más saludable y placentera. ENGLISHDESCRIPTION "Discover the evolutionary mind and body benefits ofliving at the edges of your comfort zone and reconnecting with thewild"--from the&nbsp;New YorkTimes bestselling author of&nbsp;ScarcityBrain. "If you've been looking for somethingdifferent to level up your health, fitness, and personalgrowth,&nbsp;this is it."--Melissa Urban, Whole30 CEOand author of&nbsp;The Book of Boundaries "Michael Easter's genius is that he putsdata around the edges of what we intuitively believe. His work has inspiredmany to change their lives for the better."--Dr. PeterAttia, author of&nbsp;Outlive In many ways, we're more comfortable than everbefore. But could our sheltered, temperature-controlled, overfed,underchallenged lives actually be the leading cause of many our most urgentphysical and mental health issues? In this gripping investigation, award-winningjournalist Michael Easter seeks out off-the-grid visionaries, disruptivegenius researchers, and mind-body conditioning trailblazers who are unlockingthe life-enhancing secrets of a counterintuitive solution: discomfort. Easter's journey to understand ourevolutionary need to be challenged takes him to meet the NBA's topexercise scientist, who uses an ancient Japanese practice to buildchampionship athletes; to the mystical country of Bhutan, where an Oxfordeconomist and Buddhist leader are showing the world what death can teach usabout happiness; to the outdoor lab of a young neuroscientist who'sfound that nature tests our physical and mental endurance in ways that expandcreativity while taming burnout and anxiety; to the remote Alaskanbackcountry on a demanding thirty-three-day hunting expedition to experiencethe rewilding secrets of one of the last rugged places on Earth; andmore. &nbsp; Along the way, Easter uncovers ablueprint for leveraging the power of discomfort that will dramaticallyimprove our health and happiness, and perhaps even help us understand what itmeans to be human.&nbsp; The Comfort Crisis isa bold call to break out of your comfort zone and explore the wild withinyourself.

La trampa del confort: Por qué una vida sin comodidades puede sanarnos física y emocionalmente / The Comfort Crisis (Spanish Edition)

Alternative Medicine

Planeta Publishing

The Comfort Crisis: Embrace Discomfort to Reclaim Your Wild，happy，healthy Self (Chinese Edition)

遠流

Scarcity Brain: Fix Your Craving Mindset and Rewire Your Habits to Thrive with Enough (Chinese Edition)

Science & Math

Nature & Ecology

方舟文化

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