E183 Michael Easter - Claiming Your Life-Changing Transformation Through Discomfort

Michael Easter is the author of the Comfort Crisis: Embrace Discomfort To Reclaim Your Wild, Happy, Healthy Self. He is the contributing editor at Men’s Health magazine, columnist for Outside magazine, and professor at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. His work has appeared in more than sixty countries and can also be found in Men’s Journal, New York, Vice, Scientific American, Esquire, and others. Tyler and Michael’s discussion focused on the practice of rediscovering the uncomfortable elements that we’ve engineered out of our daily life. What you’ll learn: Michael’s life-changing transformation of living in the arctic and mimicking life in the past Why you should perform tasks with a high degree of failure The benefits of nature, the three day effect, and why people find Jackson Pollock’s work so appealing What people often get wrong about hunter-gatherers Why we evolved to seek comfort and why it’s not serving us now Tips on how you can seek out discomfort The Hawthorne effect As high-performing real estate investors, we must get comfortable being uncomfortable on a daily basis!   Connect with Michael: Website: https://eastermichael.com/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/michael-easter-b208848 Twitter: twitter.com/michael_easter   The following books were mentioned in the show: The Comfort Crisis by Michael Easter Into Thin Air by John Krakauer Sapiens by Yuval Noah Harari Hero with a Thousand Faces by Joseph Campbell   Sign up for the Elevate Nation Newsletter! Receive exclusive personal and professional growth tools, tips from Tyler, what Tyler's reading, the latest news from Elevate Podcast, real estate investment news, and opportunities from CF Capital and The Chesser Companies! This episode of Elevate is brought to you by CF Capital LLC, a national real estate investment firm that focuses on acquiring and operating multifamily assets that provide stable cash flow, capital appreciation, and a margin of safety. CF Capital leverages its expertise in acquisitions and management to provide investors with superior risk-adjusted returns while placing a premium on preserving capital. Learn more at cfcapllc.com   Follow us!   Website: elevatepod.com Twitter: twitter.com/elevatepod1 IG: instagram.com/elevatepod Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/elevatepodcastcommunity LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/elevatepodcast