The Comfort Crisis: Embrace Discomfort To Reclaim Your Wild, Happy, Healthy Self
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The Comfort Crisis: Embrace Discomfort To Reclaim Your Wild, Happy, Healthy Self
New situations kill the mental clutter.
Hunger, apparently, is the best sauce.
Fear is apparently a mindset often felt prior to experience.
found that obesity began to skyrocket in 1978, when Americans added an average of 218 extra calories per day (mostly because we snacked more and moved less). That figure alone—the equivalent of 13 tortilla chips—they believe, is enough to explain the boom in obesity.
A team at the NIH recently found that for every two pounds a person loses, for example, their brain unconsciously ramps up their hunger and causes them to eat about 100 more calories.
When you put yourself in a challenging environment where you have a good chance of failing, lots of fears fade and things start moving.”
big part of the value proposition is that I’m going to do something that’s really uncomfortable. I’m going to want to quit. And it’s going to be hard not to quit because no one is watching. But I’m not going to quit because I’m watching. And then I can reflect back on how I was the only person watching myself and I still rose to the occasion in a b
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