Last summer, for GORUCK Tribe, we read an excellent book by Micheal Easter called The Comfort Crises. I blogged about it here and here. In The Comfort Crisis, Easter, discuses an emerging issue in our modern era of the Comfort Creep. Comfort creep is an insidious incremental increase of ease in our everyday lives with a commensurate decrease in our toughness. Easter describes it this way, "We sleep on the most comfortable mattress possible in our climate controlled home. We wake up and walk less than 20 feet to get into our climate controlled vehicles to work in another climate controlled building. Then we drive home to eat dinner that we didn't need to grow, forage or hunt. Then we sit on a comfortable sofa until it's time to go to sleep in our comfortable bed." One of the most powerful methods Eater recommends to stave off comfort creep is to attempt a misogi. Miosgi is a Japanese word that describes an arduous journey that transforms you. According to Marcus Elliot, a Harvard-trained sports scientist, modern misogi are designed to test our physical and mental edges. He says misogi need 2 criteria: 1. You should have a 50% chance of completing the journey 2. Don't die Misogi is meant to circumnavigate our human potential. During your misogi journey you will be tasked with exploring what you're willing to put yourself through to become a better human. Ultimately, whatever you decide to do for your misogi it will be an exploration and it should change of your comfort zone. Last year I completed 2 misgois, the Femme Fatale-A-Thon with Nick and the Badass Babes weekend in October. I'm repeating the Badass Babes next weekend with a dozen Montana badass babes. I'm still considering what my second misogi will be this year. I'm seriously considering attempting the Hero workout Kalsu. Tell me in the comments if you think I should make Kalsu my second 2022 misogi!
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