
In "Thrive," Arianna Huffington redefines success beyond money and power after her own health collapse. Translated into 30+ languages and featured on Ellen DeGeneres, this Time-influential author asks: What if exhaustion isn't the price of achievement, but its greatest obstacle?
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A successful media executive lies unconscious in a pool of her own blood, her cheekbone shattered after collapsing from exhaustion at her desk. This wasn't a random accident-it was the inevitable result of worshipping at the altar of conventional success. That executive was Arianna Huffington, and her 2007 collapse forced a reckoning with a brutal truth: our definition of success is fundamentally broken. We've built an entire culture around two metrics-money and power-while ignoring everything that makes life worth living. The wake-up call can arrive in many forms: a broken bone, a cancer diagnosis, a heart attack at forty-five. The only question is whether we'll listen before it's too late. We're literally working ourselves to death, and somehow we've convinced ourselves this is normal. Working women face 40% higher heart disease risk and 60% greater diabetes risk than their less-stressed peers. U.S. businesses hemorrhage $63 billion annually from insomnia-related productivity losses alone. Japan has a word for death by overwork-"karoshi"-with hundreds of documented cases yearly. Yet we continue celebrating the executive who emails at 3 AM and glorifying the 80-hour workweek as dedication rather than dysfunction. Young professionals compete to see who can survive on the least sleep, wearing exhaustion like a merit badge. We've normalized a perpetual state of fight-or-flight that our bodies were never designed to sustain. What if we measured success not by bank account size but by the depth of our well-being, the quality of our relationships, and our capacity to experience wonder in ordinary moments?
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Criado por ex-alunos da Universidade de Columbia em San Francisco
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Criado por ex-alunos da Universidade de Columbia em San Francisco

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