The Musogi Japanese Concept

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CNN's John Sutter meets a man who is trying to revolutionize sports science. Marcus Elliott uses big data, quantifies human movement and performance. He does this thing called Masogi where he gets people to do one really hard task every year. The idea is that when you go into the middle ground of nature, you're improved as a person.

Journalist and author Michael Easter talks about his book The Comfort Crisis with EconTalk host Russ Roberts. Easter thinks modern life is too easy, too comfortable. To be healthy, he says, we need to move out of our comfort zones and every once in a while try to do something, especially something physically demanding, that we didn't think was possible. Easter discusses rising levels of anxiety and depression in the West and why taking on challenges can be part of the solution.