Why You Should Do One Impossibly Hard Physical Task Every Year | Huckberry

I recently spent more than a month in the Arctic reporting portions of my new book, The Comfort Crisis, which investigates how modern comforts and conveniences are tied to some of our most pressing problems—obesity, chronic disease, depression, and even feeling a lack of meaning—and how engaging with a handful of evolutionary discomforts can dramatically improve wellbeing. In the Arctic backcountry I faced intense hunger, haunting solitude, savage cold and weather, and regularly crossed the edges of my physical limits. Those moments where I’d crossed what I thought was my edge but somehow found myself persisting were powerful. I came home fitter than I’d ever been and more importantly, my perspective on life had changed. I was harder to ruffle, more grateful, and found that stress just didn’t have the impact it once did. To find out why, I traveled more than 30,000 miles around the world to embed myself with seekers and scientists, studied ancient texts and poured over modern scientifi

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