Killing Comfort: The Overlooked Prerequisite to Extraordinary Results

This is probably the most practical book I've ever read. Most Self Help books have good ideas and sometimes decent implementations for a certain area, there is often too much information and not enough "how". This book is the "how to how to how" (not a typo) book as a stand alone or to accompany any other self help book. It is not just "how to", it's the "how" behind the "how to" and even goes deeper than that. It helps you break down your goals to the most basic steps. For example, a weight loss book might tell you to eat healthier and how to eat healthier. Maybe it will tell you what foods to avoid and what ones are "superfoods". It'll have really interesting science behind everything and will thoroughly convince you to start eating better and might even have recipes and budget options. That's the "how to" for eating healthy. This book will tell you why you have read that book, pressed forward with determination and fervor only to fall flat on your face a little while later. It'll also show you how to work your way to healthier eating with deliberate, and very small changes that can create habits. Taken a step further, this book can help you see the reason you want to eat healthy in the first place (and that is likely beyond "lose weight, look good, and feel great") to help you see past your obvious, superficial goals to longer lasting, deeper inner desires that drive your superficial desires. It's the inception of Self Help books. It gives you the "how" within the "how" within the "how" to find and feed that deep, long lasting "why" to all your goals. It gives you the tools and insight to tackle any area you want to improve, whether that is financially, physically, spiritually, relationally, mentally, etc. It gives you just enough guidance and practical application that the only reason you won't improve where you want to is because you didn't want to sit down, think, and then take action. This is not a book that you will read once, and your life will be changed forever. It isn't going to solve any of your problems. What it will do is show you why you aren't seeing the results you want to see and give you steps to creating a strategy to make the breakthrough you need. It is a quick and easy read, but if you aren't willing to put thought and effort into becoming better, don't waste your time or money. However, if you have been banging your head against a wall in frustration as to why you can't stick to the goals you lay out for yourself and continually are beating yourself up because you can never follow through with anything long term and are willing to do some self reflection, digging, and take (small) action, this is worth the read. Take in mind, this is not a "quick fix" book. The author is not interested in instant results that won't last. He makes it clear that this is a "long haul" approach to becoming better in the next 10 to 70 years.Jerred Moon is not a writer by trade, and the writing style shows that. There is no jargon or difficult to understand language. I bet an elementary grade student could read and understand the concepts here, and that is not necessarily a bad thing. Is it very plainly written out, and you will have few questions after finishing the book.The only real con I have with it is while it is focused on the process, the script seems to jump around quite a bit, and the author take a couple steps down the rabbit trail then turns back around after telling you he isn't here to go down that rabbit trail. I sometimes like a good rabbit trail that is related, but here, everything is brief and to the point, which isn't all that bad really.

I found out about this book from being a Garage Gym Athlete subscriber. Killing Comfort is an excellent guide to setting and crushing your goals in pursuit of being the most optimal version of yourself.

This book was a very quick read, straight to the point, ways to implement building the best versions of ourselves. Everyone always says set goals. After reading Killing Comfort you will see that it's not just about setting goals which many forget about or just set so high they never achieve them. It's about doing the necessary steps to attain these day in and day out over decades that lead to success. In this day and age technology makes us very "comfortable." Jerred breaks these traps down and gives strategies to overcome a weak mindset and acquire a tougher mentality. Learn to turn discomfort into discipline while living your life in ways that allow you to attain success. A MUST READ!!!

Jerred has been coaching with Eo3 fitness for years and has been putting these principles in action throughout his programing with thousands of athletes and the results speak for themselves. This isn't another self help book of do these 10 things and work hard and your life will be change, neither is it, just put your head down and grind. Jerred explains why these plans often fail and how killing comfort is actually working hard at the little things daily for long periods of time and the results will come. If you want a sustainable plan to truly achieve your goals you need to pick up this book.

As noted, you can read this quickly in a couple of days, few hours with a little time here and there. Yes, Jerred is a personal trainer, but this goes beyond athletics. This is about changing your way of thinking and improving yourself in all aspects. Whether it is in your job, your approach to eating, sleeping, whatever. I've been listening to his podcast for years, where is studies many different areas of being human. All that is pulled together here. Do yourself a favor, don't just read it, take it in and find out where you are too comfortable.

Jerred wrote a very motivational book that will do lots of good for most readers. Only complaint was that the kindle edition was essentially a scanned pdf version of the book so you could mess with font size, dark vs normal theme, etc. I had to zoom in to read some sections instead of picking a font size that I can read well and changing the number of pages.

This is a quick and easy read, with great advice that is deceptively simple. Each chapter only takes a few minutes, and the whole book a couple hours to get through. However, it's worth pausing after each section or returning to each multiple times and then investigating the information yourself for more reinforcement. Recommended for folks looking to improve their function, productivity, and well-being. I have followed Jerred for a while and have been impressed with his fitness programming, this is another solid entry into all around fitness.

Great challenge of mindset. Personally, it is missing the kind of connection to faith I would look for, but if you can bridge that, some great connections to historical and current concepts, people and events to develop the big idea well. Reads well.

Good book