Stop revising yourself, says Arianna Huffington. It is not a success

Arianna Huffington has spent a lot of time thinking about the connections between hard and success, and it has come to the conclusion that there is a “collective deception” about the positive correlation, while the ubiquitous neglect of risks that can literally be fatal. For years she has spent studying science, but she also draws conviction from personal experiences.

Two years after the Huffington Post was founded, Huffington collapsed with exhaustion and sleep deprivation. She met her head on her desk, broke the cheekbone and when she went from doctor to doctor, from MRI to the echocardiogram to find out what was going on was the diagnosis that came back, burnout.

“What was not the term in 2007 that was a lot in use,” she says in the first episode of the new podcast “CNBC Changemakers and Power Player” says Julia Boorstin from CNBC.

“That changed my life,” says Huffington now. “Not only in relation to how I changed my daily habits, but also how I wanted to change the culture because I found that we all suffer from this collective deception that, in order to be successful, in order to achieve, we did not have the luxury, as it was seen to take care of ourselves, and science is so contradictory.”

As CEO of Thrive Global, Huffington is on the mission to use technology to change behavior and help individuals to find more intelligent, healthier ways to success.

“Is it a successful life when you land on the floor of your office in a laugh?” Huffington says in the new podcast. “And now we have so much data and so much science that we are actually more effective when we give ourselves time to charge.”

Huffington says that culture is changing, but it believes that it is still difficult for young people to think properly about these problems. “We have CEOs from the Silicon Valley who compete with each other, how much sleep they have and how much sleep and how much rem -sleep your Oura rings wear, which I wear.

In consultation with many scientists, Huffington brought new approaches to success, including the “power of the micro steps”, to work with Thrive globally.

“It’s not about New Year’s resolutions,” she says to Boorstin. “I will get eight hours of sleep or give up sugar or whatever. It is very difficult to keep these resolutions. However, if you think of micro -steps that is in the heart of what we do at Thrive, small daily incremental steps that gradually become healthier, healthier habits and a healthy life are. See the difference,” she said.

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