{"id":3980,"date":"2014-11-24T00:00:45","date_gmt":"2014-11-24T08:00:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/learnbyblogging.com\/?p=3980"},"modified":"2014-11-20T21:15:59","modified_gmt":"2014-11-21T05:15:59","slug":"book-review-of-thrive-the-third-metric-to-redefining-success-and-creating-a-life-of-well-being-wisdom-and-wonder-by-arianna-huffington","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/learnbyblogging.com\/?p=3980","title":{"rendered":"Book Review of &#8220;Thrive: The Third Metric to Redefining Success and Creating a Life of Well-Being, Wisdom, and Wonder&#8221; by Arianna Huffington"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/e659w0EGyA0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\nThe third metric in addition to power and money touted by the author involved well-being, wisdom, wonder and giving.<\/p>\n<p>Well-being: Meditation, Being a gazelle (be peacefully enjoying the moment), don&#8217;t overconnect (the snake in the digital garden of Eden), secure your own mask first (take care of ourselves first), don&#8217;t deprive yourself of sleep (a performance-enhancement drug), do lots of walking\/hiking. adopt pets.<\/p>\n<p>Wisdom: Daily gratitude exercise (writing down a list of things to be thankful for) makes sense to relieve stress and pave a better outlook in life. Use your inner voice, hunches, and intuitions. They can be helped with good sleep and meditations. Our smartphone is not adding smartness to our lives &#8211; iParadox. Our &#8220;hurry sickness&#8221; or &#8220;time famine&#8221; could dampen our creativity. Protect our children time affluence.  Join the &#8220;slow movement.&#8221; Letting ideas simmer on the back burner could yield insights, and sometimes breakthroughs. &#8220;The future will belong to the people who can innovate &#8211; and innovation comes from knowing when to slow down. A good tip of accomplishing you really want to do &#8211; drop the rest from the list. The author recommended evicting the &#8220;obnoxious roommate (negative thoughts).&#8221; Our habits are our auto-pilots; forming good habits would reduce our need for willpower that gets depleted under stress. Use of stoicism and find meaning in life suffering and facing difficulties could benefit us. Take a minute when you wake up to breath deeply, be grateful and set your intention for the day.<\/p>\n<p>Wonder:<br \/>\nTake time to wonder at the world around us. Slow down and let wonder do its job, at its own pace. Be open to the serendipity of coincidence. Momento Mori &#8211; remember death or our mortality. Allowing the reality of death into our everyday reality can keep us from veering off course. The author talked about her mother&#8217;s death and how she lived her life in wonder until the last day.<\/p>\n<p>Giving:<br \/>\nNo self-development book is complete withing talking about giving back. No exception here. Make plan to volunteer in a weekend. There are more stories about her mother&#8217;s giving and helping others. Go-getter are good; go-givers are better. Giving promotes positive health boost and grow brain. Start small with giving and make it a habit.<\/p>\n<p>The appendix is full of apps and tips. Also the Audiobook narrated by an foreign accented woman (may be from Greece). Lots of good quotes throughout the book. <\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a decent book if you&#8217;re really lost and mired in pursuit of power and money. Otherwise, it makes a good gift for someone like that.<\/p>\n<p><iframe<\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The third metric in addition to power and money touted by the author involved well-being, wisdom, wonder and giving. Well-being: Meditation, Being a gazelle (be peacefully enjoying the moment), don&#8217;t overconnect (the snake in the digital garden of Eden), secure your own mask first (take care of ourselves first), don&#8217;t deprive yourself of sleep (a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/learnbyblogging.com\/?p=3980\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Book Review of &#8220;Thrive: The Third Metric to Redefining Success and Creating a Life of Well-Being, Wisdom, and Wonder&#8221; by Arianna Huffington<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3980","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-reviews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/learnbyblogging.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3980","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/learnbyblogging.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/learnbyblogging.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/learnbyblogging.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/learnbyblogging.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3980"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/learnbyblogging.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3980\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4015,"href":"https:\/\/learnbyblogging.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3980\/revisions\/4015"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/learnbyblogging.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3980"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/learnbyblogging.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3980"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/learnbyblogging.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3980"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}