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Thrive: The Third Metric to Redefining Success and Creating a Life of Well-Being, Wisdom, and Wonder
Arianna Huffington
3.58 AVERAGE
199 reviews for:
Thrive: The Third Metric to Redefining Success and Creating a Life of Well-Being, Wisdom, and Wonder
Arianna Huffington
3.58 AVERAGE
As I continue to push myself to improve and test what I am capable of as a person I have come to realize by reading this book that not every single thing is worth pursuing. I am not a millionaire, I have many goals I have yet to reach, and I work very hard all the time. However, through the reading of this book I have come to the conclusion that perhaps not every pursuit of mine is worth.
I must learn to say NO and take time to center myself and my mind. Arianna Huffington obviously has a life that can allow her to really sit back and work on mindfulness, take it easy, and be quite selective with her actions and workload due to the success that she has created. Many of us don't have that luxury. Instead of using that as an excuse to not take care of ourselves, use her story to make your life more well rounded.
Don't work so hard that you sacrifice your health or your family. Take time to understand that as a society we really need to examine what we mean by success.
I have filled a notepad full of ideas, inspiration, and personal goals that I am going to be using to help transform my life. Small steps at first to help me find out where I need to be with my ambitions, life goals, family goals, and personal goals.
You can't do all of it at the same time. Thrive brings back the focus to what is important in our lives - ourselves - and helps us rethink how we should live our lives so we are not the next person to sacrifice our health at the expense of a few more dollars.
As stated online, this might be the best book I have read in 2014. One of, if not the best book I have read in 2014. A great wake up call to rethink how we define success and ways in which we need to incorporate mindfulness back into our lives so we don't miss out on what is important. I wish I had the money to buy a 100 copies to give away as gifts to people that I know.
I must learn to say NO and take time to center myself and my mind. Arianna Huffington obviously has a life that can allow her to really sit back and work on mindfulness, take it easy, and be quite selective with her actions and workload due to the success that she has created. Many of us don't have that luxury. Instead of using that as an excuse to not take care of ourselves, use her story to make your life more well rounded.
Don't work so hard that you sacrifice your health or your family. Take time to understand that as a society we really need to examine what we mean by success.
I have filled a notepad full of ideas, inspiration, and personal goals that I am going to be using to help transform my life. Small steps at first to help me find out where I need to be with my ambitions, life goals, family goals, and personal goals.
You can't do all of it at the same time. Thrive brings back the focus to what is important in our lives - ourselves - and helps us rethink how we should live our lives so we are not the next person to sacrifice our health at the expense of a few more dollars.
As stated online, this might be the best book I have read in 2014. One of, if not the best book I have read in 2014. A great wake up call to rethink how we define success and ways in which we need to incorporate mindfulness back into our lives so we don't miss out on what is important. I wish I had the money to buy a 100 copies to give away as gifts to people that I know.
My slow foodie and yogi friends might begin this book and think, Hey, I already know/live this. Fair enough, but there's more. What I love about this is the call for corporate America to also fall in line, and shows where some companies do (and I had no idea they did, so I was glad to hear it). But my favorite part of this book is the discussion on how we handle death, and how that needs to change too. Because we aren't letting people go the way they want to and we should. It's the last great & loving thing we can do for each other.
An unexpected view of what the meaning of success is to a respected business woman, based on her journey back from exhaustion to fulfillment. This is NOT a business book or a book promoting that women can 'have it all' through a clever balancing act. Instead, Huffington asks "What is truely important?" and her answer revolves around relationships, mindfulness, and meditation rather than climbing the corporate ladder. A great perspective for all women, especially those pushing hard for corporate success.
First half is good. Second half wilts slightly, veering into the religious domain a bit too much for my liking. She also has a extremely annoying style of writing with an overuse of "and" - including the habit of starting numerous sentences with it (where was her editor?!). There's also lots of "science says" type sections which are insubstantial at best. An OK read but not hugely life changing.
I struggled with whether to give this book three stars or four ( wish you could do 1/2 stars!) - I liked it, and found quite a lot of the advice quite helpful. I also got lots of insight from quotes and data she shared throughout. However, portions of the book felt like an effort to name-drop people she knew, or promote the Huff Post (and I'm a huge fan of Huff Post, don't get me wrong). It most definitely gave me lots of topics for discussion within my family and friends, and some great ideas about how to cut through the noise and focus on what's important.
Although I received a copy of this book as part of the online book club From Left to Write, all opinions are my own and I was not compensated for this review.
Although I received a copy of this book as part of the online book club From Left to Write, all opinions are my own and I was not compensated for this review.
I couldn't finish this book. The advice was redundant and nothing I haven't seen a hundred times before. While it was well researched, it wasn't engaging and felt like an undergraduate essay on self-help.
Became very repetitive -- interesting statistics, but could have been shorter.
Although I appreciated the research and inspiring quotes throughout, I found myself mostly frustrated. The author reminded me a bit of Oprah, pulling theories and beliefs from everywhere, like a spiritual buffet. One gets the feeling the author is still wandering and grasping for truth.
“Have you notices that when we die, our eulogies celebrate our lives very differently from the way society defines success?”
–Arianna Huffington
Finished this book recently and its content was pretty relevant to a conversation I had last night about when working crosses the line from being fulfilling, productive, and good for us to being life draining.
Huffington redefines success along the lines of wonder, wisdom, and well being.
–Arianna Huffington
Finished this book recently and its content was pretty relevant to a conversation I had last night about when working crosses the line from being fulfilling, productive, and good for us to being life draining.
Huffington redefines success along the lines of wonder, wisdom, and well being.
