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Michael Easter

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NYT bestselling author (The Comfort Crisis, Scarcity Brain). My newsletter shares useful ideas on health, performance, & psychology—3x/week.
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    Michael Easter
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    Don't die. Live better. Read the 2% Manifesto.
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    The 2% Manifesto
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    "Retirement is the worst idea the brain ever encountered." That's neuroscientist Tommy Wood. He's watched cognition drop off a cliff when people stop working. Retirement didn't exist here until the 1930s. Before that, people worked into their 70s and 80s. The tribes that still
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    Retirement Is the Worst Idea Your Brain Ever Encountered
    “Retirement is the worst idea the brain ever encountered.” That’s what neuroscientist Tommy Wood told me when he appeared on the Two Percent podcast. He watched it happen while conducting studies and...
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    Retirement Is the Worst Idea Your Brain Ever Encountered
    “Retirement is the worst idea the brain ever encountered.” That’s what neuroscientist Tommy Wood told me when he appeared on the Two Percent podcast. He watched it happen while conducting studies and...
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    Aug 29
    Arabic translation of The Comfort Crisis coming soon from @SadaPublisher Translation by @Emadattili
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    #يصدر_قريبا عن دار صدى @SadaPublisher كتاب أزمة الراحة "عانق المشقة لتسترد ذاتك الفطرية والسعيدة والمعافاة" للكاتب الأمريكي مايكل إيستر @Michael_Easter ترجمة عماد العتيلي @Emadattili
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    Aug 28
    Rule one: you never set the weights down. Not between reps, not between sets, not during the 30 seconds of “rest.” I learned this in a Pennsylvania basement from John Schaeffer, the trainer behind Apolo Ohno's eight Olympic medals. What his athletes have in common: legs that
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    Michael Easter
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    The Leg Workout That Made Me Want to Die
    A handful of years ago, I found myself in the basement of a nondescript house in the middle of Pennsylvania farm country. I’d never been to this particular basement before, and I’d just met the man...
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