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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
Content: 4 stars
Audiobook: 2 stars
Arianna Huffington, the founder of the Huffington Post, has written a useful book about achieving a successful life. She recommends thinking about your life from the end, moving backwards. What do you want to be told in a eulogy at your funeral? People don't say, "he was rich, he was powerful, he had a corner office, he gave good PowerPoint presentations, he climbed the corporate ladder, he made lots of money." Instead, people talk about the values of that person, the good he did in the world, the lives he touched.
So, Huffington writes that success is not measured just in wealth and power, but in the sense of well being, the capacity to be compassionate and giving. The cumulative sharing of memories, experiences, and wisdom is what counts.
This is basically a self-help book. Huffington warns of the dangers of burnout. In order to avoid burnout, she recommends a host of actions for achieving a successful life, including getting enough sleep, meditating, turning off social media. She recommends helping yourself to achieve serenity and a sense of wonder, before launching out to help others.
I didn't read this book; I listened to Huffington narrate her audiobook. While her voice is pleasant, her heavy Greek accent makes it quite difficult to understand what she is saying at times. So, I do NOT recommend this as an audiobook, but to read the print version.
Audiobook: 2 stars
Arianna Huffington, the founder of the Huffington Post, has written a useful book about achieving a successful life. She recommends thinking about your life from the end, moving backwards. What do you want to be told in a eulogy at your funeral? People don't say, "he was rich, he was powerful, he had a corner office, he gave good PowerPoint presentations, he climbed the corporate ladder, he made lots of money." Instead, people talk about the values of that person, the good he did in the world, the lives he touched.
So, Huffington writes that success is not measured just in wealth and power, but in the sense of well being, the capacity to be compassionate and giving. The cumulative sharing of memories, experiences, and wisdom is what counts.
This is basically a self-help book. Huffington warns of the dangers of burnout. In order to avoid burnout, she recommends a host of actions for achieving a successful life, including getting enough sleep, meditating, turning off social media. She recommends helping yourself to achieve serenity and a sense of wonder, before launching out to help others.
I didn't read this book; I listened to Huffington narrate her audiobook. While her voice is pleasant, her heavy Greek accent makes it quite difficult to understand what she is saying at times. So, I do NOT recommend this as an audiobook, but to read the print version.
3.5 stars really.
http://m360.sim.edu.sg/article/Pages/Thrive.aspx
Thrive for a Happier Life
I have great respect for Ms Arianna Huffington. This is the first time I have read a book by the 14-book author. However, looking at the contents page which lists as follows: Introduction, Well-Being, Wisdom, Wonder, Giving as the key headers, and about a third of the book filled with notes, acknowledgements, index, and appendices, I could not help but wonder what I was in for.
Still I persisted as I reminded myself that this was more of a memoir. I have to say I do not regret it. Well, there were certain parts where she droned on about meditation but that is because she is an advocate of it. If you never realised how much of an advocate, read this book, and the repetitiveness of it will be drilled into your brain.
Thrive is deeply personal as she speaks about her children, her challenges, and how she dealt with her challenges. I feel that this book is ideal for the young working woman as she might learn a thing or two about how to juggle her job, her potential family (should she get married), and her own well-being.
Overall, that long list of notes and appendices just goes to show how meticulous Ms Huffington is. There is bound to be something helpful for any woman or man out there who takes the time to read this. It is not a long read at 342 pages, especially since a third of it consists of notes and the like.
Copyright © 2015 Singapore Institute of Management
http://m360.sim.edu.sg/article/Pages/Thrive.aspx
Thrive for a Happier Life
I have great respect for Ms Arianna Huffington. This is the first time I have read a book by the 14-book author. However, looking at the contents page which lists as follows: Introduction, Well-Being, Wisdom, Wonder, Giving as the key headers, and about a third of the book filled with notes, acknowledgements, index, and appendices, I could not help but wonder what I was in for.
Still I persisted as I reminded myself that this was more of a memoir. I have to say I do not regret it. Well, there were certain parts where she droned on about meditation but that is because she is an advocate of it. If you never realised how much of an advocate, read this book, and the repetitiveness of it will be drilled into your brain.
Thrive is deeply personal as she speaks about her children, her challenges, and how she dealt with her challenges. I feel that this book is ideal for the young working woman as she might learn a thing or two about how to juggle her job, her potential family (should she get married), and her own well-being.
Overall, that long list of notes and appendices just goes to show how meticulous Ms Huffington is. There is bound to be something helpful for any woman or man out there who takes the time to read this. It is not a long read at 342 pages, especially since a third of it consists of notes and the like.
Copyright © 2015 Singapore Institute of Management
This book just gave me anxiety about all of the things I should be doing, but definitely am not doing.
there is no new information in this book. I should get more sleep?? habits are hard to break?? groundbreaking stuff here!!
Good information. I ended up skimming a lot because I knew most of it and skipped over most of the scientific data, which there was a lot. lol
Sometimes a book comes into your life for a reason, and this is one of those books. I felt drawn to read Thrive after I had worked for a year in a job that did not support my values. I was walking into the office at 7am, starting work at 6am and going until 6:30pm, clocking 50 hour weeks and feeling it slowly impact my health and wellbeing. Only a month ago I had my 'wake up call' in the form of an anxiety attack that left me awake until 4am and being unable to go to work the next day. It was only a few weeks later I took the plunge and resigned from my job. When I heard that this book was based on Arianna Huffington's own wake up call of literally collapsing from sleep deprivation and exhaustion I picked it up.
This book has put everything that I knew was wrong for me into a manifesto for redefining the Western traditional view of success of money and power and adding a third metric centred around wellbeing, wisdom, wonder and giving. I enjoyed every page, I loved the science behind it - 'sleep is the best performance enhancing drug' it says. Thrive has made me confident and proud to say that I am not a workaholic and have so many other passions outside of my career I need to make me feel happy, healthy and truly 'successful.'
Even as I write this review, I'm not completely sure where my career is going to go - I'll be doing some freelance work for a while but this book is something I'll keep coming back to. If Arianna Huffington, the CEO of The Huffington Post can be balanced in her life and 'thriving' then we all can.
This book has put everything that I knew was wrong for me into a manifesto for redefining the Western traditional view of success of money and power and adding a third metric centred around wellbeing, wisdom, wonder and giving. I enjoyed every page, I loved the science behind it - 'sleep is the best performance enhancing drug' it says. Thrive has made me confident and proud to say that I am not a workaholic and have so many other passions outside of my career I need to make me feel happy, healthy and truly 'successful.'
Even as I write this review, I'm not completely sure where my career is going to go - I'll be doing some freelance work for a while but this book is something I'll keep coming back to. If Arianna Huffington, the CEO of The Huffington Post can be balanced in her life and 'thriving' then we all can.
Although she borrows the quote from, "The Sound and the Fury," I think this sums her novel up nicely:
"I give it [a watch] to you not that you may remember time, but that you might forget it now and then for a moment and not spend all your breath trying to conquer it."
"I give it [a watch] to you not that you may remember time, but that you might forget it now and then for a moment and not spend all your breath trying to conquer it."
DNF at 50% read. (I think this still counts as reading my backlog in 2019 - book 10 because I cleared it from my shelf... and it’s my game).
While I think there are some decent insights in this book I took on board the general advice of the book and, following my intuition, did not finish. I think there’s some valuable ideas but I don’t think they’re woven together very well and while I don’t mind the writing I found the structure really off putting/lacking. Main takeaways from the first half of the book are that we should meditate, take time away from phones and social media, sleep, practice gratitude... nothing too revolutionary in 2019 but in 2014 perhaps it was one of the earlier books to put these ideas together. Happy I gave it a go.
While I think there are some decent insights in this book I took on board the general advice of the book and, following my intuition, did not finish. I think there’s some valuable ideas but I don’t think they’re woven together very well and while I don’t mind the writing I found the structure really off putting/lacking. Main takeaways from the first half of the book are that we should meditate, take time away from phones and social media, sleep, practice gratitude... nothing too revolutionary in 2019 but in 2014 perhaps it was one of the earlier books to put these ideas together. Happy I gave it a go.
While I agree with the premise of this book, it is just so badly written that it makes me wonder how she managed to create the HuffPo.
I read this book because my company had adopted her mantra "Thrive" as a drive towards a healthier workforce. I agree with other reviews that all the many quotes from various sources (from celebrities to Greek philosophers) makes this book feel like a feel good coffee table book. You really have to be in the mood for this kind of prose. I was very into it the first few chapters but towards the end it was difficult to finish. Also some of the content is outdated at this time, which is obvious since this was published a few years back. Overall, i would recommend to coworkers who believe the more hours they put in the better it will be.