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October 18, 2025 1 min
Embrace Discomfort To Reclaim Your Wild, Happy, Healthy Self. 

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Welcome to the WZ book Club. I'm Jordan Rich. Michael
Easter has written several books about the brain, including Scarcity Brain,
Fixing your craving mindset and Rewiring Habits to Thrive with Enough,
and the one I want to mention now called The
Comfort Crisis. Embrace Discomfort to reclaim your wild, happy, healthy
self in our very comfortable society where so many sheltered individuals,

(00:22):
particularly young people, are living under challenged lives. He presents
the evidence that visionary people what he calls mind body
conditioning trailblazers. They're the ones that have found what many
consider to be counterintuitive to be a solution, and that
is discomfort. If you've heard the expression no pain, no gain,
then this might be the book for you, with incredible
journeys that take us round the world to see just

(00:42):
how people do it, leveraging their discomfort and dramatically improving
their health and their happiness. If you've been thinking about
breaking out of your comfort zone, I recommend taking a
shot at The Comfort Crisis by investigative author Michael Easter.
And that's the book Club. WVZ, Boston's news radio
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