--- product_id: 246204 title: "Thrive: The Third Metric to Redefining Success and Creating a Life of Well-Being, Wisdom, and Wonder" price: "$23.68" currency: USD in_stock: true reviews_count: 13 url: https://www.desertcart.us/products/246204-thrive-the-third-metric-to-redefining-success-and-creating-life store_origin: US region: United States of America --- # Focus on well-being & balance 10th Anniversary Edition Science-backed insights Thrive: The Third Metric to Redefining Success and Creating a Life of Well-Being, Wisdom, and Wonder **Price:** $23.68 **Availability:** ✅ In Stock ## Summary > 🌟 Thrive beyond the hustle: Success redefined for the mindful millennial leader! ## Quick Answers - **What is this?** Thrive: The Third Metric to Redefining Success and Creating a Life of Well-Being, Wisdom, and Wonder - **How much does it cost?** $23.68 with free shipping - **Is it available?** Yes, in stock and ready to ship - **Where can I buy it?** [www.desertcart.us](https://www.desertcart.us/products/246204-thrive-the-third-metric-to-redefining-success-and-creating-life) ## Best For - Customers looking for quality international products ## Why This Product - Free international shipping included - Worldwide delivery with tracking - 15-day hassle-free returns ## Key Features - • **Grounded in Cutting-Edge Science:** Leverage neuroscience, psychology, and physiology to boost well-being and productivity. - • **Practical Daily Habits for Thriving:** Master sleep, nutrition, movement, stress management, and meaningful connection. - • **Redefine Success Beyond Money & Power:** Discover the transformative Third Metric that stabilizes your life like a three-legged stool. - • **Arianna Huffington’s Personal Wake-Up Call:** Learn from a top media mogul’s journey from burnout to balance and wisdom. - • **Cultural Revolution for Modern Professionals:** Join the movement reshaping workplaces, schools, and families for lasting fulfillment. ## Overview Thrive is Arianna Huffington’s #1 New York Times bestseller that challenges the traditional success metrics of money and power. Now in its 10th anniversary edition, it offers a science-backed, practical blueprint for integrating well-being, wisdom, wonder, and giving into your life. Drawing from personal experience and groundbreaking research, this book is a must-read for professionals seeking sustainable success and deeper fulfillment in today’s hyperconnected world. ## Description #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Arianna Huffington’s impassioned and compelling case for the need to redefine what it means to be successful in today’s world—now in a 10th anniversary edition featuring a new preface “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 Huffington’s exceptional book will transform our workplaces, schools, and families.”—Adam Grant, bestselling author of Think Again Arianna Huffington’s personal wake-up call came in the form of a broken cheekbone and a nasty gash over her eye—the result of a fall brought on by exhaustion. The cofounder and editor-in-chief of the Huffington Post Media Group—which became one of the fastest growing media companies in the world—and celebrated as one of the world’s most influential women, she was, by any traditional measure, extraordinarily successful. Yet as she found herself going from brain MRI to CAT scan to echocardiogram to find out if there was any underlying medical problem beyond exhaustion, she wondered, Is this really what success is like? In the past decade, and especially in today’s post-pandemic world, people are realizing there is far more to living a truly successful life than just earning a bigger salary and climbing the career ladder. Our relentless pursuit of the two traditional metrics of success—money and power—has led to an epidemic of burnout and illness, and an erosion in the quality of our relationships, our family life, and, ironically, our careers. In being connected to the world 24/7, we’re losing our connection to what truly matters. We need a new way forward. In Thrive, Huffington has written a passionate call to arms, as timely today as it was when it was first published more than ten years ago, looking to redefine what it means to be successful in today’s world. Huffington 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 this deeply personal book, Huffington talks candidly about her own challenges with managing time and prioritizing the demands of a career and a family, the harried dance that led to her collapse—and to her “aha moment.” Drawing on the latest groundbreaking research and scientific findings in the fields of psychology, neuroscience, and physiology that show the transformative effects of our five foundational daily behaviors—sleep, food, movement, stress management, and connection—Huffington shows us the way to a revolution in our culture, our thinking, our workplaces, and our lives. Review: A good and very sincere book written by a very successful ... - A good and very sincere book written by a very successful businesswoman. The main idea is both highly simple and very old: it's high time to redefine what means to be successful in life or "what is a good life?" Over time "success, money, and power have practically become synonymous in the minds of many" but this idea works – at least appear to work – only in the short term. As A. Huffington (AH) writes "over the long term, money and power by themselves are like two-legged stool – you can balance on them for a while, but eventually you are going to topple over". So, we – people - need to have a third measure of success – she calls it a Third Metric. In her eyes it consists of four constituents: well-being, wisdom, wonder and giving. In fact the book is devoted to a careful discussion around these four notions. All logic of AH is based on two assumptions. "The first is that we all have within us a centered place of wisdom, harmony and strength…The second … is that we're all going to veer away from that place again and again and again". Then in the first chapter she step by step discusses the problems of the present-day society linked closely with well-being: Burnout – as a result of a zeal to overwork that leads to high level of stress and decreases productivity; The link between the health of employees and bottom lines; Overconnectivity of modern life and the state of being drowned in plenty of data; The constant lack of time for all our tasks and our multitasking fever. Her recipes: sleep enough, meditate, do not overwork, turn off your gadgets regularly, use general well-being instead of GDP as an indicator of economic success Next chapter is about wisdom. In fact she is speaking about the same problems as in the previous chapter but at another point of view: "Wisdom is precisely what is missing when – like rats in the famous experiment by B.F. Skinner … -we press the same levers again and again even though there is no longer any real reward". Here AH mentions in passing about the notion of Data-Information-Knowledge-Wisdom and Big Data. Her recipe: listen to your inner wisdom, break bad habits, change yourself… A chapter named Wonder is about the purpose of life itself – and "that purpose is self-actualization…"; about silence – "ask your soul"; about coincidences which awaken wonder in our lives; about death which is inseparable side of life. At last the chapter Giving is about compassion and altruism: "helping others makes us happier"… "Onward, upward, and inward!" – these are the last words of this book. It's worth noting that the author gives a lot of examples both from scientific studies and from her life and the life of her family as well as from the lives of her close friends. Especially touching – at least for me – were the pieces where AH tells about lessons that she got from her mom and about her mom's death. All mentions on people, events or names are carefully described in Notes. There are Appendices as well where a reader can find references about tools/sites for meditation, relaxing, giving, volunteering, etc. What I don't agree with: The third metric model tacitly equals the human side of human being with money and power. I think that money are necessary only as the means for self-actualization but can't be the purpose of a wisdom man. The more the power may be a purpose only for a very limited number of people. Of course AH is right when she writes that modern society forces us to think that money and power mean success but nevertheless I consider them as lower steps of Maslow hierarchy. And my second doubt is about the assumption "… that we all have within us a centered place of wisdom, harmony and strength". I'm afraid that not all have… and I don't know what is the part of those who have… Of course potentially all people may have… but in reality … Review: Onward, Upward and Forward - Yes, that is the message this well recognized and publigshed literary figure expresses, not only to a graduating class she is addressing, but throughout her message on how to create a life. It might surprise some folks that she needed a wake call in her personal life for this message to come to her when she collapsed on the floor from over work, mental, physical and emotional exhaustion. But, it should not surpise you when it is stated, as she does, how a majority of us in these busy days have become overwhelmed and swamped with work, techology connecting 24/7, and a personal life that for many has disappeared from their landscape. Arianna combines recollections of her childhood and Mother, who was emotionally well founded, had our eye on enduring personal values and could relate to anyone; with well selected quotations and references to sustain her thesis that: People need to find time for their inner selves and a presence of "mindfulness" as they go about daily living. She, rightfully, contends that without a presence of the self an individual will experience poorer health, a shorter lifespan, limited connection with those closest to them, and a really insignificant life. Maybe the most significant weakness in this useful premise is the more than once reference to Steve Jobs, some of his aphorisms, and a speech he made to the Stanford graduating class. Yes, Steve is a recognizable person in recent American culture and maybe one with undo influence as information about him has been publicly disclosed after his death. It may be debated whether he was virtuous or virtuless, or somewhere in between. But, Arianna needs to reflect on the window into his soul that may have been opened when he stated, "The customer's job is not to decide what he/she needs." That paraphrased expression, used for this review, reflects an underlying dogma that Arianna actually stands up against in all the rest of this book as she argues for one to find oneself. Maybe she, too, needs to recognize that the many visible players with whom she is able to associate from her cultural and business role are not always as she trys to portray them in "The Third Metric..." Over all, this is an invaluable expression of advice that is well documented and points to the disasteous direction many have taken in recent years as they followed a path that led them afar from where they may have started and wanted to be. ## Features - Thrive: The Third Metric to Redefining Success and Creating a Life of Well-Being, Wisdom, and Wonder ## Technical Specifications | Specification | Value | |---------------|-------| | Best Sellers Rank | #927,762 in Books ( See Top 100 in Books ) #209 in Women & Business (Books) #2,436 in Success Self-Help #3,380 in Motivational Self-Help (Books) | | Customer Reviews | 4.3 out of 5 stars 2,852 Reviews | ## Images ![Thrive: The Third Metric to Redefining Success and Creating a Life of Well-Being, Wisdom, and Wonder - Image 1](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/7103Ec6-05L.jpg) ## Available Options This product comes in different **Media Language, Media Format** options. ## Customer Reviews ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ A good and very sincere book written by a very successful ... *by V***R on August 29, 2014* A good and very sincere book written by a very successful businesswoman. The main idea is both highly simple and very old: it's high time to redefine what means to be successful in life or "what is a good life?" Over time "success, money, and power have practically become synonymous in the minds of many" but this idea works – at least appear to work – only in the short term. As A. Huffington (AH) writes "over the long term, money and power by themselves are like two-legged stool – you can balance on them for a while, but eventually you are going to topple over". So, we – people - need to have a third measure of success – she calls it a Third Metric. In her eyes it consists of four constituents: well-being, wisdom, wonder and giving. In fact the book is devoted to a careful discussion around these four notions. All logic of AH is based on two assumptions. "The first is that we all have within us a centered place of wisdom, harmony and strength…The second … is that we're all going to veer away from that place again and again and again". Then in the first chapter she step by step discusses the problems of the present-day society linked closely with well-being: Burnout – as a result of a zeal to overwork that leads to high level of stress and decreases productivity; The link between the health of employees and bottom lines; Overconnectivity of modern life and the state of being drowned in plenty of data; The constant lack of time for all our tasks and our multitasking fever. Her recipes: sleep enough, meditate, do not overwork, turn off your gadgets regularly, use general well-being instead of GDP as an indicator of economic success Next chapter is about wisdom. In fact she is speaking about the same problems as in the previous chapter but at another point of view: "Wisdom is precisely what is missing when – like rats in the famous experiment by B.F. Skinner … -we press the same levers again and again even though there is no longer any real reward". Here AH mentions in passing about the notion of Data-Information-Knowledge-Wisdom and Big Data. Her recipe: listen to your inner wisdom, break bad habits, change yourself… A chapter named Wonder is about the purpose of life itself – and "that purpose is self-actualization…"; about silence – "ask your soul"; about coincidences which awaken wonder in our lives; about death which is inseparable side of life. At last the chapter Giving is about compassion and altruism: "helping others makes us happier"… "Onward, upward, and inward!" – these are the last words of this book. It's worth noting that the author gives a lot of examples both from scientific studies and from her life and the life of her family as well as from the lives of her close friends. Especially touching – at least for me – were the pieces where AH tells about lessons that she got from her mom and about her mom's death. All mentions on people, events or names are carefully described in Notes. There are Appendices as well where a reader can find references about tools/sites for meditation, relaxing, giving, volunteering, etc. What I don't agree with: The third metric model tacitly equals the human side of human being with money and power. I think that money are necessary only as the means for self-actualization but can't be the purpose of a wisdom man. The more the power may be a purpose only for a very limited number of people. Of course AH is right when she writes that modern society forces us to think that money and power mean success but nevertheless I consider them as lower steps of Maslow hierarchy. And my second doubt is about the assumption "… that we all have within us a centered place of wisdom, harmony and strength". I'm afraid that not all have… and I don't know what is the part of those who have… Of course potentially all people may have… but in reality … ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ Onward, Upward and Forward *by A***R on May 9, 2014* Yes, that is the message this well recognized and publigshed literary figure expresses, not only to a graduating class she is addressing, but throughout her message on how to create a life. It might surprise some folks that she needed a wake call in her personal life for this message to come to her when she collapsed on the floor from over work, mental, physical and emotional exhaustion. But, it should not surpise you when it is stated, as she does, how a majority of us in these busy days have become overwhelmed and swamped with work, techology connecting 24/7, and a personal life that for many has disappeared from their landscape. Arianna combines recollections of her childhood and Mother, who was emotionally well founded, had our eye on enduring personal values and could relate to anyone; with well selected quotations and references to sustain her thesis that: People need to find time for their inner selves and a presence of "mindfulness" as they go about daily living. She, rightfully, contends that without a presence of the self an individual will experience poorer health, a shorter lifespan, limited connection with those closest to them, and a really insignificant life. Maybe the most significant weakness in this useful premise is the more than once reference to Steve Jobs, some of his aphorisms, and a speech he made to the Stanford graduating class. Yes, Steve is a recognizable person in recent American culture and maybe one with undo influence as information about him has been publicly disclosed after his death. It may be debated whether he was virtuous or virtuless, or somewhere in between. But, Arianna needs to reflect on the window into his soul that may have been opened when he stated, "The customer's job is not to decide what he/she needs." That paraphrased expression, used for this review, reflects an underlying dogma that Arianna actually stands up against in all the rest of this book as she argues for one to find oneself. Maybe she, too, needs to recognize that the many visible players with whom she is able to associate from her cultural and business role are not always as she trys to portray them in "The Third Metric..." Over all, this is an invaluable expression of advice that is well documented and points to the disasteous direction many have taken in recent years as they followed a path that led them afar from where they may have started and wanted to be. ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Thrive is a Rich Collection of Wisdom Beyond Measure! *by C***E on April 2, 2014* I have been a spiritual seeker for many years and from much reading, I not only thrive but have met the most wonderful and talented people in the world. Recently I had the privilege of learning even more from Arianna Huffington's incredible book Thrive, which touched me as no other book I've read. After reading Thrive, I was elated that one of the world's most influential woman, Arianna redefines success, money, and power, all of which she believes are founded on well-being, wisdom, wonder, compassion and giving. They have truly been the key principles and values credited to how I lived successfully for the past 25 years and it was thrilling to see these principles spelled out so wonderfully in Arianna's words. Thrive is without a doubt the richest collection of researched science, wisdom, and compelling life stories that our world needs to see. There is a message for every one of us - whether we're down to our last dollar or counting our millions, or going to the next level of greater achievement. As Arianna shows, we will not thrive unless we use these higher principles and values in our daily lives. Arianna's power of story, and experience - in her words "And time inherently creates a story. Things begin and they end. How they end is the story. Or maybe it's what happens between when they begin and end that's the story." Thrive redefines and teaches us the true meaning of success with another pillar of Giving. 3. "Use a talent or skill you have - cooking, accounting, decorating - to help someone who could benefit from it. It'll jumpstart your transition from a go-getter, to a go-giver, and reconnect you to the natural abundance in your life." I'm already benefiting from Arianna's advice with an extra hour of sleep. It's brought more balance of well-being in my life. Thank you Arianna for sharing your love to the world so that we all can thrive! 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