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

We’ve now deteriorated from helicopter parenting to snowplow parenting.

New situations kill the mental clutter.

New situations kill the mental clutter. In newness we’re forced into presence and focus.

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.

Fear is apparently a mindset often felt prior to experience.

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.”

Hunger, apparently, is the best sauce.

Autophagy is, in many ways, a metaphor for what happens to all things under discomfort: Our weak links—whether physical or psychological—are painfully sacrificed for our good.