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Comfort Crisis
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Nov 26, 2025
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Why You Always Want More | Michael Easter
10% Happier·Nov 26, 2025
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Modern society's increasing comfort levels have caused people to lose the evolutionary discomforts that are necessary for maintaining health and happiness.
“as the world has gotten more and more comfortable over time, we have lost a lot of these sort of fundamental evolutionary discomforts that keep us happy and keep us healthy.”
10% Happier · Nov 2025 · 2 episodes · 1.5M views on this topic
He believes that discomfort acts as an essential antidote to happiness and that seeking discomfort can help one appreciate life.
“It made me think that discomfort is an antidote for happiness in that regard”
The Diary of a CEO · Nov 2023 · 1 episode · 1.5M views on this topicExtracted by a model; may misattribute who said what.
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