Ebury Publishing, 2014, softcover, 342 pages, condition: new.
In Thrive, Arianna Huffington, the co-founder and editor-in-chief of the Huffington Post and one of the most influential women in the world, has written a passionate call to arms, looking to redefine what it means to be successful in today's world.
She likens our drive for money and power to two legs of a three-legged stool. It 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 in order to live a healthy, productive, and meaningful life.
In this deeply personal book, Arianna talks candidly about her own challenges with managing time and prioritising the demands of a career and two daughters. 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 workplaces, and our lives.
Arianna Huffington has achieved the two metrics that signal success in our society: money and power. But when she broke her cheekbone after collapsing from built-up exhaustion, stress, and lack of sleep, she reawakened to the idea that there needs to be a Third Metric for defining success. That third metric is made up of well-being, wisdom, wonder, and giving. Pairing bits of personal experience with the latest research, Huffington argues persuasively for a new paradigm of work and society. What she says is not new but it is perhaps notable for being addressed to high-powered executives in private enterprises, the already successful in the money and power metrics, in other words. There is still value here for those of us in the public sector, public service, and/or struggling to get by even if our workplaces are unlikely to allow us to take an afternoon nap, though some of the book pairings below might hit home more directly. It is certainly encouraging to see that there are some with money and power who are working to create a new paradigm for society.
