So far the book seems to be a whole lotta words to justify taking thousands of dollars from the family budget and leaving the kids with your wife (and her parents and church?) so you can go moose hunting in the Alaskan wild. At least Chris McCandless didn't have people depending on his income. Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty - by Daron Acemoglu and James Robinson Boredom is good for us. It forces us to tap into our creativity and look for new pathways. Today's digital menu of smartphones, streaming content, and the internet robs us of those opportunities, and addicts us to attention-grabbing cotton candy for the mind. Easter claims we spend 11 hours per day on digital media, but I've seen 8-9 hours elsewhere. In any case, it's an enormous chunk of our day. One of the best things about a Misogi like this is that it took the author away from all of his content, which forced his brain to adapt and find new ways to combat boredom.

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Most people today rarely step outside their comfort zones. We are living progressively sheltered, sterile, temperature-controlled, overfed, underchallenged, safety-netted lives. And it’s limiting the degree to which we experience our “one wild and precious life...” To combat poor eating habits, the book recommends combating mindless eating with food diaries. We routinely underestimate what we eat, and Easter talks with an expert who says you can eat anything that you want, as long as you limit your total calories and focus on foods that actually fill you up. While junk foods are calorie dense, they are ultimately unsatisfying and leave you still hungry. Potatoes are one of the best foods you can eat to fill you up, as long as they aren't processed or fried. A lot of foods can be considered "comfort foods"- treats meant to calm down your anxieties or depression. The effects of these foods don't last long at all, and the author encourages people to deal with their stress and discomfort in other ways, not through eating. Healy Hurricane = SM (SotF) → WG → Convoke → Flourish → Spam rejuv all over the raid. If you want some extra oomf and don’t think you’ll need it, throw Nature’s Swiftness in just before Convoke. It doesn’t consume the buff but apparently every Regrowth in there gets the 100% heal bonus. Super cool Easter calls this trip, where he goes as far from civilization as you can get in North America, a Misogi. Taken from Japanese mythology, a Misogi is a purification ritual that is meant to be an epic challenge, one where there is a substantial risk of failure that somehow stretches humans past boundaries they didn't know they had. By embracing comfort, so many of us have lost sight of our potential, and this intense ritual is a way of breaking past the barriers that make us cozy and contented.

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Americans have changed from 5% living in rural areas in 1776 to 85% in 2020. Urban areas are filled with more conveniences, but they also come with more mental and physical illnesses that drag on our happiness. As population density increases, happiness decreases according to what's called the Savannah Theory of Happiness. She explores the joy of foraging, the marvels of Irish birds, the roles of our native trees in environmental regeneration, nature at night and in the city, and much more – including fascinating insights into our ecological past.

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For most of human history over thousands and thousands of years, our bodies have evolved to handle intense physical challenges. Our embrace of electronic devices and comfy chairs has shut down all of this evolutionary advantage and made many of us miserable for reasons we don't understand. Even our exercise routines have to be short, efficient, and comfortable in shiny, new fitness centers. Atheist Mind, Humanist Heart: Rewriting the Ten Commandments for the Twenty-first Century - by Lex Bayer and John Figdor Any other woman mentioned is a distant wife holding down the home front or a victim of kidnapping (seriously, his entire history of Iceland said it started from a population of N thousands, whom I guess weren’t women, plus women who were kidnapped). I wouldn’t give up Convoke for it though. Running that (with Cenarious) gives you what I lovingly refer to Healy Hurricane on a 1.5 min timer, which is incredibly potent. People apparently never carry heavy things anymore which is probably news to every toddler-carrying mom/parent out there.

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Important to spend time in nature (ie 5h a month). The quiet is important to reset the mind. Even the act of listening to nature sounds can reduce stress. People are happier in nature. I experimented with this in raid last week, running the rejuv spreading build. Embrace of the Dream was responsible for roughly 5% of my healing. I tried switching over to Unbridled Swarm and, if I stayed on top of it, I got maybe 6%.

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Another issue I have is, if you request the list of sources that he references in the book it automatically signs you up for his newsletter. I hate that.

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So why am I rating 2 stars? Something that irritates me with these types of journalistic books is that the author spends so much time describing their own journey into the research - which I could NOT care less about and it takes up most of the book content. I couldn’t have been less interested in this guys conversations with random people or arctic adventure (arctic adventure sounds interesting but his wasn’t at all. It was basically him walking around with a bunch of old dudes and occasionally hunting). I really just want to hear about the research and facts. I also didn’t really like how he described calorie counting as the best way to lose weight. Is that a wrong opinion? No - I just didn’t think it fit into the purpose and content of the rest of the book which is about being uncomfortable. He went into the nutritional density of food and all of this other information that didn’t pertain to his thesis. Allowing yourself to be hungry is one thing, but then to say calorie counting is the best way to eat? Doesn’t really correlate to me. If you're the kind of person who does Crossfit, shaves your head (if you're a guy), is into hunting and Navy SEALS workout regimens, then this is kind of preaching-to-the-choir for you. I kind of wanted preaching-to-the-choir...I had an assumption that discomfort is good for us and wanted to read something that proves it...but I'm not into those things. So I didn't really identify with these parts of the book. Small blue butterflies find a new home in Cumbria after 64 were translocated Photograph: Peter Howarth/Guardian Community I, Claudius: From the Autobiography of Tiberius Claudius, Born 10 B.C., Murdered and Deified A.D. 54 - by Robert Graves