A Joosr Guide to… Thrive by Arianna Huffington: The Third Metric to Redefining Success and Creating a Life of Well-Being, Wisdom, and Wonder

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In the modern world, we have become obsessed with power and money, often at the price of our happiness. Arianna Huffington suggests a third metric for measuring success that will redress that balance.

Success has become synonymous with power and money. But measuring success in these terms only leads to stress, and eventually burnout. In Thrive, Arianna Huffington offers a more progressive framework for success, which will help us to lead healthier, happier and more productive lives.

You will learn:

· Why putting down your phone will help you reconnect with yourself, and those around you

· What you can gain from slowing down instead of speeding up

· How looking after your own well being first will actually be good for your company.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Joosr
• Release date: Jul 15, 2015
• ISBN: 9781785670787

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What’s it about?

When Arianna Huffington collapsed at her home office from exhaustion, it forced her to reassess her life and priorities. According to the traditional measures of success, power and money, Arianna was most definitely successful. But her experience made her question what success actually meant to her. Her soul-searching led her to define a new third metric of success: thriving.

Throughout the book, Arianna makes an impassioned plea for us all to take a closer look at our lives. Like the ancient Greeks, we must question what a good life means to us. If it means power and money, it is time to reassess our life just like Arianna did.

The book is full of wise anecdotes, stories from Arianna’s life and experiences, and sound, practical advice on how to lead a happy and successful life.

It is critical of the western definition of success, which has forged a culture of plenty, and has also forced us to work harder, with less time off and to ever-stricter deadlines. The result is stress and burnout. This cannot be success because it does not bring happiness.

It is only when we have