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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
Thought a few times about stopping this book in the middle because reading TWO books like this one at the same time was making me feel weighed-down with information. However, I kept working on it, and I am so glad that I did. There is lots of food for thought in and the Appendices alone are worth their weight in gold. I came away feeling good about things my own not-for-profit agency employer has in place that makes work energizing and meaningful, however I can also see how the increase in technology has been both a blessing and a curse for everyone, not only those of us who work in the field I work in. Balance is key.
A really interesting and thought-provoking read. It's true that we need to look beyond money and power and focus on our well-being and the well-being of our close ones. Don't forget the important things in life!
The book and some good thoughts and concepts to think about, but was very repetitive and didn't seem very organized.
This was really a three and a half for me David; lots of interesting advice/anecdotes and references to the Classics but I'm not sure all of the personal anecdotes were really necessary? I feel for Huffington's daughters: 'when I was speaking to Steve Jobs', 'when I was at a fancy dinner', 'when I was giving the commencement speech at Wharton', 'when my daughter was accepted to Harvard', 'when my daughter had an eating disorder', 'when we discovered my other daughter had an issue with alcohol'....maybe she's hoping this is read as 'hey, I'm successful professionally but my homelife was a bit fucked and them's the breaks'? Having said that, my copy of this book is heavily tagged with Post-its. Labelling it the 'Third Metric' is a wank/makes it an easier sell but lotsa gold nonetheless especially from her Yaya. Some good points about women in the corporate sector, the structure of work in general, 'continual partial attention', mindfulness, community, giving and death with some great recommendations for further reading and tools to improve focus.
This book really surprised me! My expectations were really low, but the points that Huffington makes about our current lives vis a vis social media, work life stress and family time are important ones! Her focus is on mindfulness, disconnecting from the online world to save ourselves and our health from overload. I really liked this book and might even give it a second read!
We'll researched and well written, Ariana reminds us of many common sense life lessons that seem to have been forgotten in our stressful modern lives. Get enough rest. Don't spend too much time online or on devices. Look inward and trust your intuition. Give or volunteer. No earth shattering revelations and it's more than a little sad that these concepts are not already part of our society's definition of success.
Really good - loved it. Nice to have some real life examples and facts and figures along side ideas for changing/improving your life or the lives of others. Some great ideas and inspirational thoughts too that I'll definitely be aiming to try.
It took me awhile to get through this book, but I'm glad I read it. There is a lot of truth in what Arianna Huffington has to say about living a life of well-being, wisdom and wonder and I think it has excellent points for how to live a more fulfilling and rich life. I liked it more than The Sleep Revolution although it was rather quote heavy and sometimes I got a bit bogged down in all of the examples, but overall a good read.
There were a few good points to be pulled from this book but I couldn't even finish it. I felt like she repeated herself over and over. I'm sorry if I missed something revolutionary in the last half, but in the first it felt like beating a dead horse a little.
Read this one with my work book club, and it surprised me how many parameters of life this book touches outside of the professional sphere: death, spirituality, giving vs. getting, and more. Reading this a decade after it was published is obvious though. It's almost a completely different world from what we were experiencing in 2014, so her references are sometimes dated. Knowing what comes afterward (the Trump era, even more foolish social media stunts and influencers, climate change getting worse, etc.) starts to sting a little more reading Huffington's idealistic words. However, I do think there's still a lot to be gained reading about wellness, wisdom, wonder, and giving.