The Nuance

How Too Much Comfort Is Making You Miserable

Roughing it now and then may be the secret to a more contented life

Markham Heid
Elemental
Published in
5 min readMay 12, 2021

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Photo: Anna Kubiak/Unsplash

The journalist Michael Easter once spent a month in the Arctic Circle, tracking a herd of caribou for a national magazine story.

After 33 days in the backcountry — lugging an 80-pound pack through forests and…

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Markham Heid
Elemental

I’m a frequent contributor at TIME, the New York Times, and other media orgs. I write mostly about health and science. I like long walks and the Grateful Dead.