The Comfort Crisis with Author Michael Easter

Charlie welcomes Michael Easter, author of the phenomenal book that Charlie calls one of the most influential books he’s read, “The Comfort Crisis.” Easter argues that as the industrial revolution has created more comfort—comfort foods, comfort leisure, comfort distraction, and comfort clothes—we have lost touch with the very things that have kept us safe, healthy, connected, and productive. He also argues that we’re actually not bored enough, a phenomenon that Easter argues is the brain’s mechanism for determining that our activities are not productive enough, and it’s time to move on to a better task. What are implications for social connection? What does the comfort crisis tell us about our diet and our eating patterns? What does it mean for our sense of happiness and joy? And what can we do, including time in nature, to restore the rhythms of our original design?  Support the show: http://www.charliekirk.com/supportSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.