After Arianna Huffington collapsed one morning in 2007, cutting her eye and breaking her cheekbone as her head hit her desk during the fall, she began to question the meaning of success. Huffington, chair, president and editor-in-chief of the Huffington Post Media Group, had been working 18-hour days, seven days a week to grow her online publication, and finally buckled under exhaustion.
She describes her fall as “a classic wake-up call” in her recently published book, “Thrive: The Third Metric to Redefining Success and Creating a Life of Well-Being, Wisdom, and Wonder.” Anchoring Huffington’s book is a personal reflection on the definition of success.
From Huffington’s perspective, “the way we’ve defined success is not enough.” Nor is it sustainable. “To live the lives we truly want and deserve, and not just the lives we settle for, we need a Third Metric, a third measure of success that goes beyond the two metrics of money and power,” she writes.
“Thrive” is available on www.800ceoread.com for $20.80.
