The drive to seek comfort, historically beneficial for survival, is counterproductive in modern environments with abundant comfort and calories.

“because in our past environments where everything was hard seeking comfort kept you alive right it told you don't move too much because that burns calories and calories are at a premium when you get food it tells you i should probably eat as much as possible right now i should binge this thing and then we're rewarded for that right so we'd store it on our frame as fat for the next famine on and on and on avoid cold avoid heat take shelter avoid all risk but we don't have those situations anymore so this sort of drive we have to always be comfortable in this comfortable world is backfiring”