Michael Easter

Welcome to 2%.

I'm your host, Michael Easter.

Most of us live in optimization mode.

We pick the fastest route, the safest neighborhood, the most efficient schedule.

We always seek comfort.

But a life that is optimized for ease and comfort also removes us from the experiences that make life worth living.

Adventure, it has been totally engineered out of our everyday lives, and we are paying for it in ways that we don't even realize.

So we have two guests who are coming on today to talk about adventure, how to get more of it in your life, and how it can fundamentally change you as a human, and how it doesn't always have to be this big extreme thing that's hard to find.

Although, if you do decide to go to the extremes, your life will probably change a lot.

First, we are going to bring on Jay Carson.

He was a political operator and a Hollywood producer and writer for years.

He was winning the game of life, but then an emergency happened.

And he realized that although he was really great in all these worlds that had a lot of spin, a lot of narrative, he was not competent in the real world.

He couldn't handle things that came his way.

So what he did is he decided to take a survival course, took two weeks in the middle of the Utah desert.

He had nothing with him.

And it totally changed his life.

It made him happier.

It made him healthier, more important.

It made him a far more competent human being in his day-to-day life and made him appreciate just how amazing modern day life is.