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    Thrive: The Third Metric to Redefining Success and Creating a Life of Well-Being, Wisdom, and Wonder
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    Thrive: The Third Metric to Redefining Success and Creating a Life of Well-Being, Wisdom, and Wonder
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    Thrive: The Third Metric to Redefining Success and Creating a Life of Well-Being, Wisdom, and Wonder
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    Thrive: The Third Metric to Redefining Success and Creating a Life of Well-Being, Wisdom, and Wonder

    Written by Arianna Huffington

    Narrated by Agapi Stassinopoulos

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    About this audiobook

    In Thrive, Arianna Huffington makes an impassioned and compelling case for the need to redefine what it means to be successful in today's world.

    Arianna Huffington's personal wake-up call came in the form of a broken cheekbone and a nasty gash over her eye--the result of a fall brought on by exhaustion and lack of sleep. As the cofounder and editor-in-chief of the Huffington Post Media Group--one of the fastest growing media companies in the world--celebrated as one of the world's most influential women, and gracing the covers of magazines, she was, by any traditional measure, extraordinarily successful. Yet as she found herself going from brain MRI to CAT scan to echocardiogram, to find out if there was any underlying medical problem beyond exhaustion, she wondered is this really what success feels like?

    As more and more people are coming to realize, there is far more to living a truly successful life than just earning a bigger salary and capturing a corner office. Our relentless pursuit of the two traditional metrics of success--money and power--has led to an epidemic of burnout and stress-related illnesses, and an erosion in the quality of our relationships, family life, and, ironically, our careers. In being connected to the world 24/7, we're losing our connection to what truly matters. Our current definition of success is, as Thrive shows, literally killing us. We need a new way forward.

    In a commencement address Arianna gave at Smith College in the spring of 2013, she likened our drive for money and power to two legs of a three-legged stool. They may hold us up temporarily, but sooner or later we're going to topple over. We need a third leg--a third metric for defining success--to truly thrive. That third metric, she writes in Thrive, includes our well-being, our ability to draw on our intuition and inner wisdom, our sense of wonder, and our capacity for compassion and giving. As Arianna points out, our eulogies celebrate our lives very differently from the way society defines success. They don't commemorate our long hours in the office, our promotions, or our sterling PowerPoint presentations as we relentlessly raced to climb up the career ladder. They are not about our resumes--they are about cherished memories, shared adventures, small kindnesses and acts of generosity, lifelong passions, and the things that made us laugh.

    In this deeply personal book, Arianna talks candidly about her own challenges with managing time and prioritizing the demands of a career and raising two daughters--of juggling business deadlines and family crises, a harried dance that led to her collapse and to her "aha moment." Drawing on the latest groundbreaking research and scientific findings in the fields of psychology, sports, sleep, and physiology that show the profound and transformative effects of meditation, mindfulness, unplugging, and giving, Arianna shows us the way to a revolution in our culture, our thinking, our workplace, and our lives.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPenguin Random House Audio
    Release dateMar 25, 2014
    ISBN9780804193931
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    Thrive: The Third Metric to Redefining Success and Creating a Life of Well-Being, Wisdom, and Wonder
    Author

    Arianna Huffington

    Arianna Huffington has been named one of Washington's most influential commentators by both Newsweek and People. Her syndicated column appears twice weekly in newspapers around the country, including the Los Angeles Times, the New York Post, and the Chicago Sun-Times. She is a frequent guest on television talk shows from Crossfire to Politically Incorrect, and a contributing writer to Talk magazine. The author of seven previous books, she lives in Los Angeles and Washington, D.C., with her two daughters.

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    • 4/5
      Success is often defined by money and power, and one could argue that Arianna Huffington is successful by both of those metrics. However, while working 18-hour-days to build The Huffington Post and be a mother to her two daughters, she collapsed in exhaustion and begin to question her definition of success. In this book, she suggests that to be truly success, we need more than money and power. We also need to thrive by bringing well-being, wisdom, wonder, and giving into our lives. In this book, she integrates her story with research that illustrates the benefits of practices such as meditation, mindfulness, volunteering, and respite. While Huffington convinced me of the importance of all of the topics that she touches on in this book, I found myself wanting more depth in places. Still, this book does the important work of reminding us of the importance of living intentionally.
    • 4/5
      I listened to the unabridged audiobook version of this and I found it timely, and full of wisdom and food for thought. I had a difficult time with the reader, though. Maybe I am just too critical or overly sensitive to reader's voices, but this one (Coleen Marlo) over-enunciated to the point of it sounding phony half the time. Also, although she has no accent or speech problem, every word that ended in *d*, she pronounced as if it ended in *t*. So, *and* became *ant*, *world* sounded like *worlt*, and so on. I found this to be a distraction for me but because I wanted to hear the whole book, I did not give up. However, I think I may go and buy the book because there were several parts I'd like to have underlined so I could return to them and reread. I am at a point in my life right now where health, self-care and well-being are taking on particular meaning so this book was a serendipitous choice at the moment.
    • 4/5
      An enthralling case for everyone to redefine what it means to be successful. Her major points are of Mindfulness, Meditation, Unplugging, and Giving as a means to survive this competitive age.
    • 4/5
      In Thrive, Arianna Huffington (Huffington Post) redefines success. Forget money and power, the classic metric, and embrace well-being as the third metric. A broad theme, you might use happiness as a result of a life well lived instead. Personal health, enough sleep, Intuition, spirituality, mindfulness, our sense of wonder, and the capacity for compassion and giving. The author, constantly busy heading HuffPost, had her personal wake-up call in the form of a broken cheekbone and a nasty gash over her eye -- the result of a fall brought on by exhaustion and lack of sleep.Her Greek / Jewish background, especially the way her mother lived and left life, inspired her. Her comparative religions studies in India further shaped her, while staying connected with the contemporary news consumer. What is the legacy you want to leave behind?Our current definition of success is killing, makes us selfish, zombies without relationships, always in a hurry. Thrive means movement upward, forward and inward. And so, Arianna shares a lot of insights, examples, quotes from religious texts, philosophers, researchers to ask attention for better time management, a deep consciousness of who and where you are. She distinguishes between institutionalized religion and the spiritual longings every human has. While Huffington is 100% into mindfulness and meditation, you may find rest in other peaceful moments or practices, like prayer and contemplation.Though she earns her money in online media, the author values disconnecting from her devices, spend time with friends and family, get enough sleep and avoid becoming a real online media addict. Stop, stare and wonder. Life here on Earth's short, so live it fully. And, following Adam Grant 's Give & Take, Arianne also challenges her readers to give more. From this extensive pool of thoughts you may distill lots of lessons to change your thinking, beliefs, workplace, and life for a better cause.
    • 5/5
      Outstanding collection of essays with liberal use of references and quotes.
    • 3/5
      I don't think the author did a very good job of explaining what real success is. She had a few good points to make and a few bad ones. In the places where she was right, we certainly did need her to elucidate them. Common sense prevails. But the areas in which she was wrong were quite disturbing.
    • 5/5
      This book is so easy to read and yet offers such a rich amount of depth and wisdom. It is timely and informative, provocative and insightful. This book offers you ways to enhance your life and that is no small accomplishment! Great book!
    • 4/5
      Pretty interesting. Heavy on meditation.
    • 4/5
      This book provides a good reminder that our health is the most important thing we have and that we need to take care of ourselves. I enjoyed reading about the author's journey after taking a fall after being sleep deprived. She gives much food for thought via the way of meditation and the unplugging of electronic devices. I really enjoyed reading about her mother who seemed to be quite the character and a very positive role model.
    • 3/5
      I received this as a First-reads winner, and, as I had mixed emotions about Huffington and the subject matter, I was curious to read it. I liked it far more than I thought I would! (If I could have provided another half star, I would have.) Anything that smacks of self-help or what a wonder life can be and etc. never appeals to the cynic in me. This was interesting and well done, however—although I still find the author too much of a self-promoter to suit me, even if I like her current politics.
    • 5/5
      A different perspective of looking at life which is easily missed in the pursuit of monetary & power!!
    • 4/5
      An honest, heartfelt, and well-researched account about the principles of living a successful life full of giving, mindfulness, meditation, and child-like wonder in a world that rewards selfishness, mindlessness, overwork, and blind ambition. Huffington is using her platform to get the word out that a meaningful life is about dollars and sense, common sense, and how everyone in spite of circumstances can change the direction of their lives so that they leave more than trust funds in their wake, but also a rich legacy of experience that will fuel the next generation.