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A Billionaire Just Re-Defined Success and It Has Nothing to Do With Money or Power
There has to be more to life than working and slaving and spending and consuming until you die. There has to be.
But if we’re subordinating ourselves to our jobs, grinding away without questioning our direction, our methods, or even the state of our mental and physical health, we’re likely to reach the end of our lives having never actually lived.
That’s Arianna Huffington’s important message in her book, Thrive, which is about redefining success, and, specifically, expanding your personal definition of success to include your own heath, well-being, physiological functioning, and overall life satisfaction.
She’s now also somewhat of a “sleep evangelist,” publishing another international bestseller called The Sleep Revolution.
Launching and growing The Huffington Post was not a part-time job, either, and turning it into a media powerhouse influencing hundreds of millions of lives came with a devastating cost to Arianna Huffington’s health.
Exhausted after one too many 16+ hour days, she collapsed at her desk one night, suffering a nasty gash on her forehead and sending her to the emergency room. This, she realized soon after, was crazy.
