Book · recommended on 2 episodes
Scarcity Brain
Michael Easter ISBN 0593236637
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Michael Easter ISBN 0593236637
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This book by Michael Easter has come up 2 times across 2 different shows: Andrew Huberman, Joe Rogan. The people who brought it up: Michael Easter. The earliest mention we indexed is from 2024-06-27 and the most recent from 2025-06-16. Every occurrence below links to the episode page and to the exact second it was said on YouTube.
“there's a section in the comfort crisis and I've written about this a little bit in my other book scarcy brain as well where I talk about the value of boredom”— Michael Easter
The guest here is Michael Easter: Author of The Comfort Crisis and Scarcity Brain and a professor at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. His work explores how modern comfort undermines mental and physical health and how doing hard things restores it. Michael Easter explains why deliberately choosing discomfort, adventure, and weighted walking rewires the brain for focus, meaning, and resilience.
“my book scarcity brain which is coming out soon it has a whole chapter on this and why exploration is so important”— Michael Easter
The guest here is Michael Easter: Investigative journalist, professor, and author of The Comfort Crisis and Scarcity Brain who studies human behavior, addiction, and how evolution shapes modern habits. Michael Easter unpacks the scarcity loop behind gambling, addiction, overeating, and why ancient brains struggle in a modern world of abundance.
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