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Thrive

The Third Metric to Redefining Success and Creating a Happier Life

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Thrive

By: Arianna Huffington
Narrated by: Agapi Stassinopoulos
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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 2014 (P) Penguin Audio 2014

 Leadership Management Management & Leadership Personal Development Personal Success Business Meditation Inspiring Mindfulness
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Critic reviews

In Thrive, Arianna urges all of us to get in touch with who we really are so that we can live life on our own terms. From the importance of sleep to the imperative to listen to our own inner voice for ways to deal with the daily time crunches we all feel, this book lays out a path for each of us to look within and make our lives more authentic and fulfilling.
At once intimate and formidable, this book is Arianna Huffington at her persuasive best. Thrive is a clarion call, a meditation, and a practical response to the question of how to live.
Once in a generation, a book comes along that can truly transform your life. This is it. The most unhappy people are those who have achieved unfathomable money, power, and fame and found that it didn’t bring them the happiness they were seeking. Now what? Thrive doesn’t show just how to become more successful; it shows how to realize and experience what matters most.
Thrive is a captivating look at what it takes to live a more meaningful, satisfying life. Brimming with passion, supported by science, and crowned with practical insights, Arianna’s exceptional book will transform our workplaces, schools, and families.
Arianna Huffington has written a passionate and much needed prescription for reshaping life from the inside out. Turn off your cell phone, your email, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and every other tool of the stressed-out, distracted world to spend some time thinking about grace, joy and wonder. You'll be glad you did.
This is a generous, urgent, vital book, a chance to redefine how we keep score before it's too late. Arianna has given us a gift, and delivered it with style. Read it!
You can feel Arianna's passion for her subject on every page of this book. Arianna has reflected on and struggled with how best to define success ever since I met her more than 30 years ago. In Thrive she's created a new paradigm for redefining how to systematically build a life of purpose and balance and accomplishment— the whole life we're all ultimately after.
Warning: The content of this book is highly contagious. Even slight exposure may set you on a path to far clearer seeing, a radical resetting of your priorities, deep contentment, and, of course, thriving. Chances are, it will also melt your heart.
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Highly recommended for busy women always on the go. Wonderfully narrated, with rich examples and easy techniques to put in to practice.

Best mindfulness book so far

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A wonderful and well researched listen . I loved the thick Greek accent. Enthralling

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Would you recommend this book to a friend? Why or why not?

I thought this would give good advice on work life balance. instead, a bunch of statistics and vaguely new age recommendations that lead nowhere. It touches on lots of subjects (meditation) that are much better covered elsewhere. this is a woman who beseeches us all to turn off our phones, but launches an app to help us do so. The narration is awful, the accent so thick that, if nothing else, its unintentionally funny at times (as she pronounces 'focus' as 'f**k -us). Buy '10% happier' instead.

Would you ever listen to anything by Arianna Huffington again?

no

Who might you have cast as narrator instead of Agapi Stassinopoulos?

Anyone who can speak english

Could you see Thrive being made into a movie or a TV series? Who would the stars be?

no

Any additional comments?

avoid

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thank you to the author, the narrator and audible this was a fantastic book. easily digestible but impact full beyond belief

life changing

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fantastic, full of passion and actionable tips and great advice, I really loved this and will listen to over and over. Recommended for those who just feel a bit...."icky" about the material and selfish way we can sometimes find ourselves living.

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