Michael Easter

That's a great, that's a great way to, to say this.

I just, I just read that from Michael Easter.

You know-

He's like, "We're protein maxing."

And I know that sounds crazy.

Read my buddy, Michael Easter's book, The Comfort Crisis.

It's a masterpiece.

So to answer your big question, if given all I've heard from your situation, yes, I would just go to church with my dad, man.

And our Australian tour guide is Joaquin Matilda.

And, of course, our seat cushion tester is Mike Easter.

Our chief counsel, as always, from the law firm of Dewey, Cheatham & Howe is Ulyss Dewey, known to the tofu dog vendors in Harvard Square as Uy Louie Dewey.

Thanks so much for listening.

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Michael Easter.

And-

Yeah

Hello, you're on Car Talk.

Hi, this is Mike from Spicer, Minnesota.

Hi, Mike.

Mike.

What's happening?

Well, I have got a 1997 Chevy Blazer two-door.

But that's, that, that's encouraging because that means that maybe Chevy knows what this noise is.

Aha.

I thought it would be the perfect resource to share for today's episode.

In the book, author Michael Easter asked the question, are we hardwired to crave more from food and stuff to information and influence? Why can't we ever get enough? So far, I'm loving this book, and it's backed by tons of scientific studies, experiments, interviews, and data.

You can tell that Easter did his homework here.

And it's a phenomenal book if you're yearning to learn about why we crave the things that we crave and how we can learn to live with enough.

So again, the book is Scarcity Brain, Fix Your Craving Mindset, and Rewire Your Habits to Thrive with Enough by author Michael Easter.

I'll be sure to include the book in the show notes.

And with that, let's get into this conversation with Monica Packer.

I was telling you before we jumped on the call, I've been reading this book called Scarcity Brain, Fix Your Craving Mindset and Rewire Your Habits.

And so it's understanding this weird tension.

Chris Williamson, my buddy, calls it out a lot.

There's a weird tension between most men want to be told, hey, you are worth being loved, period.

And the strange thing about that anchor point allows us to go do amazing, crazy, successful, wonderful

Right.

And so, yes, there is some work here, but here's the path.

And this is from my buddy, Michael Easter.

It is going to be hard to change those internal stories.

And I just feel like You know, it's tough because it requires work, but it's deliberate discomfort.

Like we live in a society, we had the author of The Comfort Crisis on our podcast, Michael Easter, you know, and he's just saying, you know, it's just like current society is optimized for comfort, temperature control, door dash, we don't have to do anything nowadays.

compared to what other people have to do to be able to actually, you know.

But the challenge is, if we're optimized for comfort, then where's the growth? If everything is easy for us, where do we have to really get strength and capacity and capability and develop some kind of what I call cognitive anti-fragility.

Give us one book that has impacted you personally or professionally that you'd recommend to the audience.

okay uh god i love books uh comfort crisis by michael easter fantastic

nice and tell us about it because i don't i'm not familiar with it

oh yeah worth worth the read uh it's a he's he uh he did a 40-day backpack trip through uh the plains of alaska and um and talks about how discomfort is really important to our lives we live in an ultra comfortable culture Where everything is made for our comfort and how we're really missing out on one of the biggest parts of life, which is which is having some discomfort.

sure.

Comfort crisis.

Michael Easter.

Incredible book.