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Arianna Huffington

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“So it can't be rumin, it can't be montane. So it's got to be. Be a beginner every single morning The fact that we can start every morning fresh. So, you know, every day is a mixture of good things and bad things. and often wake up in the morning and we carry the burden of the bad things that happened the day before. So Wake up every morning and have that sense of New Beginnings You know, like the first morning of creation, whatever term you want to use fresh.”
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“I think a lot of people. Feel that there are deadlines I have to achieve x by thirty and y by forty and that creates a certain pressure and an object. You say pressure is okay and pressure is okay, but not when it comes with a lot of stress. And not when it robs us of joy.”
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“And I want everybody listening and watching to realize how much time guys you have left. and how much you can do during this time.”
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“I'm just really excited about it. I don't know if my mother would like me to use the word proud because she didn't like that word. But I'm really excited and I want to devote the rest of my life to that.”
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“What an amazing question. I think actually it is Very recently and we talked about it. But I was proud that we were addressing Hairy Problem Which is healthcare That so often these problems seem so intractable. That we shy away from Looking at solutions. And so the fact that we brought together a great team, the fact that we found a great CEO and that we convinced him to leave Google, to run this project, that he's building an amazing rock star team and that we may be able to have a real impact. On the lives of people who Don have their resources. To actually take care of themselves in a way that so many people with resources are already doing.”
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“So what I love about this is that it may sound warm and it may sound like a warm and fuzzy thing, but it's based on hardcore science And that's very important to me because if we are going to help people adopt this healthier habits, we need to convince them that they're based on rigor and data and they are not just random things that we came up with.”
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“I would say hundreds and hundreds it could be a thousand times, and it never fails to have that impact on me. Now, a lot of people create multiple videos, you know, different music, different moods. But the point is bringing together things you are grateful for and based on the science that gratitude and stress and anxiety cannot coexist.”
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“So basically it has pictures of my children at different ages, my dog, my It has favorite quotes like be willing to be a beginner every single morning. That means something to me. It has music that I love. It ends with my absolute favourite, which is Rumi Live as if everything is rigged in your favour.”
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“Yes, we can make it very easily on our platform. It takes five minutes because everybody has pictures they love stored together, music they love, and we also offer different quotes if you want to use quotes.”
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“Stress is an unavoidable part of life like there is nobody who doesn't have stress in their lives. But cumulative stress is avoidable. And the way to avoid cumulative stress is to read the neuroscience that tells us that in sixty to ninety seconds we can go from the sympathetic to the parasympathetic nervous system. The sympathetic is fight or flight. In sixty ninety second, Stephen, that is kind of amazing, and the reason that is true is because we all have that place in us. We don't have to invent it or create it. Our breathing is a superpower. You know, most of us forget that we breathe all the time. So how do we breathe consciously? So we now have hundreds of resets on our platform. that focus on conscious breathing, gratitude images, but my favorite thing is creating our personalized resettlement.”
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“So it can know everything about Stephen, not just your biometric data, your lab data, your medical data, but your preferences, what foods you like, how you like to sleep with your phone, and how we're going to change that. But also what poems do you like? Are there any sacred texts that you like? Is there any music that you love? Any nature and at the right moment give you the right nudges and recommendations to move you towards the best version of yourself. And one of the things I'm focusing a lot now at Thrive, this company I founded after I left the Havingdon Post, was how to help people make that connection. And one of the ways we are doing it is through the 60 second resets.”
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“But because he was a But I actually believe that we now have the opportunity to use what AI makes possible, which above all, in terms of health is hyper personalization. Like it can have what they call a context window of billions and billions of data points.”
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“Isn't it funny that you had Prince Charles speaking from the crossbenches? meaning neither side because that was the royal prerogative.”
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“The one thing we haven't talked about is Is what you alluded to right now, which is We have the opportunity now to use technology Far are good. You know, technology, so much of technology through algorithms and the early more primitive forms of AI has led to bringing the worst out in us.”
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“Yeah, but I think. They would have been more joy. If I had worried less, acted as I did. The rumination that I mentioned and the negative fantasies about the future these are the things that most depleted me when I was young.”
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“And so the more we can connect with our spirit, our soul, the more we can be in touch with meaning and purpose. But if we try to comprehend everything through our minds, they are so limited that”
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“Actually, there is an enormous amount of suffering. But the question is, do you trust that it's not? Because there is an indifferent or malevolent force in the universe. But because so much of our evidence is beyond our understanding that we cannot comprehend the mystery of the universe just through our minds alone”
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“Whatever term you use, it's basically that benevolent universe. There is a phrase, there is a verse in the Bible that I love, which is not a sparrow false, but God is behind it. Like nothing happens Nothing happens however trivial that doesn't have some divine purpose behind it.”
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“The bag didn't come to me. But beyond that, it was out of my hands, and very often people don't go to the bank because they're afraid of rejection. So when we've overcome that fear of rejection, that fear of failure, we are much more likely to take bold moves. And also, if you look at your life, and if I look at mine, there are so many so called coincidences serendipity, you know, somebody you meet, I mean, I loved your conversation with Whitney. You know, she was at a dinner and they offered her a job, sure. She called them to follow up on the job. But that you could say was just a coincidence that she met that person at Adina. I call coincidences the miracles that God performs anonymously. And if you don't like using the term God it doesn't matter.”
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“Now that's luck right he had no earthly banking reason to give me that overdraft I still sent him a holiday card every year but it reminded me of fairy tales you know when the hero or the heroine is stuck in a dark forest and then this helpful animals come out to guide them out of the forest well that's back to trust I believe in life there are these helpful animals in the form of a bank manager or whatever and you can call it luck but I also call it part of the benevolent universe we live in Stephen”
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“I said maybe it's time to give up and go get a real job. And I When I was going by Barclay's bank in the corner of St. James's Street, I don't know if it's still there. And something made me get into the bag and ask to see the bank manager. And the bag manager, whose name was Ian Bell, came and I told him my story and I asked for an overdraft. I had no assets. And he gave it to me.”
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“So after my first book, which I wrote when I was 23 and was a big success, I wrote a book on leadership Hours twenty seven I Took a lot of time writing it and I ran out of money. All the money I had made from the female woman my first book. But I was determined not to write another book on women. After that first book, everybody wanted me to keep writing on women. And trust me, I had said everything I needed to say, everything I knew and beyond on women. And I wanted to move on, as you can see from the topics of my books, I like to move on because I learn through writing a book. And that's very important to me. I ran out of money, and so I remember being really depressed, walking down St. James's Street in London and thinking, well, you know, maybe my first book was a fluke. This book has been rejected by 37 publishers.”
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“Actually, inter I feel that we're a bit of a family. Which means that I'm going to express what I'm going through, they will express what they're going through. We work hard. We celebrate small victories. I think that's really important. We don't wait for just the big breakthroughs. And because everybody's so much younger than me I do have that maternal sense for the people I'm working with. And a lot of the people I'm working with have been with me since the Having Don Post. Our chief brand officer joined me as an intern from Princeton at the Huffington Post, helped me build the Huffington Post, came with me to thrive. So these are sort of very long relationships”
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“Well, that's what I said earlier about not looking over our shoulder for approval. You know, it's been very easy historically for women to be liked and admired if they Didn't try to build something if they were kind of pretty and well dressed and Didn't break with conventions. Is that something that we want to do? I think. I don't really know any young women who wanted to be in that place now.”
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“Well, there is no question that even though the None of that stopped me the language used towards me or towards some of the women I'm sure that you are talking to who are building successful businesses is different like a man is much more likely to be called bald or audacious when a woman is going to be called pushy or aggressive or bossy or And these are definite prejudices in our culture. The question is, are we going to let them stop us while we are trying to change the culture for everybody? How can we move on and not let these things derail us?”
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“which means encouraging people to speak up when they are not happy, when something is a problem. So often people sit on that and it festers. And if they have permission to express it, to express the satisfaction, to express something that's not working, it's so much easier to solve the problem.”
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“We conduct exigent interviews. But what about entry interviews? And it doesn't have to be long. It can be 15 minutes. And the first question of the entry interview. Stephen, welcome. Quite important to you outside of work, and how can I support you? Suddenly You hear about what matters to them, they feel if what matters to them is to take their kid to school at eight in the morning and they have an elderly parent they are taking care of or whatever it is or they have a flute lesson than they want to go to at seven on a Thursday they don't have to hide. It can be baked into the job. The manager knows, it creates more intimacy, it creates more connection, especially since so many of us are in high school. Environments And the other thing is Compassionate directness is our number one value at Thrive.”
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“Two more things on the business side. If you are going to build this culture that I know you believe in, that can be game changing for the success of a company. One thing that we recommend is the first day of somebody's job in your company have the manager conduct an entry interview.”
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“He doesn't mean that you wouldn't be successful the other way. Of course, I mean, they're in large number of burnt out people who have succeeded. What else could they have done? If they were more connected with their creativity, their intuition, if they didn't spend as much time ruminating over mistakes or making bad hiring decisions as I did, or making bad decisions generally, or refusing to delegate, that's another issue. Definitely, when you asked me about mistakes, I think it took me a long time to learn to delegate. And that's partly because we feel nobody can do it as well. And maybe that's true, but then there was one day when I realized, you know, if somebody does it sixty percent as well, and I can be freed up to do higher order things, fantastic. Let them do it sixty percent as well and learn.”
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“Taking care of yourself is kind of a luxury for later in life. It's like a little bit of a luxury for when you are not launching new companies and Being all in swimming really fast and I am I want to at least take on trust for a minute but explore it is that that's not true. That I a thousand percent believe that when you prioritize this five behaviors, not in any Dogmatic way We're all works in progress. I mean, I talk about it all the time. And am I doing it perfectly? Of course not. Nobody is. But if you really prioritize these five behaviors, how you sleep and what you eat and how you exercise and how you manage your stress, how And how you stay connected with yourself and your loved ones, I promise you. That everything you are doing will be even more successful. That is an absolute guarantee.”
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“Yes, but in whatever season of life, you can keep creating. And that's partly the What I'd love people to look at, there is definitely something in our culture that makes us think that we have to achieve everything before we are 30, or maybe before we are forty. You know, you have the 30 and the 30s and the 20 under 20s, and soon we are going to have the five under fives. And the fact is that if you take care of yourself, and that's the big if, you know, if you focus on these five behaviors. And your health is sustained, and you feel vital, then you can keep creating. Until the end, you know, I cannot imagine retiring. Because I love what I'm doing and because I I love And there is no and When you bailed. So the one thing that I don't think I've convinced you about, but I want to have one more go, is that you really think that”
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“I think you're going to be a great dad, Stephen. And I think having children also puts everything in perspective. Because there's something magical about this little beings. and the continuity of life. I mean you are So creative. And constantly launching new projects, which is fantastic. Learning also to disconnect from that And fully connect with yourself, your loved ones, your children when you have them, I think is Game chang And I believe it also makes us better at our jobs because it gives us that perspective. You have this moment, these flashes of intuition and new ideas that are Are so much easier when we are recharged and not running on empty.”
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“It is incredibly painful because she really was the foundation of my life And you know, she lived with me. She helped me bring up my children. She was An integral part of Everything in my life and my sister's life. But what you just read is true. I mean, I do feel her presence so much, and I really. I really feel that when we integrate death in our lives it enriches our lives, you know, the Socrates said practice death daily, not in a morbid sense, but in the sense that the Romans would carve M, Mementomori, remember death on statues, on trees, In order to Be obsessed with death, but in order to put life in perspective. So often we just worry about trivial things we get upset about minor things. And if we kind of remember that life is a terminal condition. And that death is the one certainty.”
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“Yes And the way she said to me do not call the ambulance. Made me not call the ambulance, you know, there is so much authority behind it. That's what she wanted. And of course I didn't know she would die.”
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“Yeah, in the evening, you know, after she had prepared this feast for everybody, she fell. And she said let's all gather around with her on the floor. And she said to me with this incredible authority do not call the paramedics. And she said it was such authority that I didn't I called the nurse who had taken care of her at home. And we sat around and she said let's open a bottle of wine and we opened a bottle of wine and we sat there and talked and my two daughters were scootering around inside the house. And then she killed over and died. She had told her housekeeper earlier that she knew the time had come, and she wanted to die at home, surrounded by her family.”
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“which is completely false, I mean scientifically false. And that's what I'm so passionate about convincing more and more people about, and that's why I love using examples of athletes. Who prioritize their well-being because it improves their performance. So if we see well-being as a productivity multiplier. If we see what we are doing now, for example, is optimizing the health of executives in companies. You know, we talk about longevity, we talk about health. If these are optimized within a company, productivity is going to increase.”
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“You know what is interesting, Stephen When people would say to her you proud of your daughter she would always say I don't use that term I'm not proud I just Love what she's doing and contributing, you know, she didn't see it as a pride. She saw it more As that journey, and that's kind of really important to understand what I learned from her, that it isn't just about achieving. It's about joy while you're achieving. And now that's kind of my barometer. Like, it's not just about being productive. I proved to myself that I can be productive, but if I ever Don't feel that joy It means there's something off. That I need to recalibrate”
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“Yes. And strong she definitely Brought us up with this fearlessness, but she would always say fearlessness is not an absence of fear. It's like going ahead and doing what you think you should do even while you're afraid. It's like a muscle that you exercise.”
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“My father was in a concentration camp because he was publishing an underground newspaper during the German occupation of Greece and he was arrested and spent the war in a concentration camp in Germany. My mother was in the Red Cross and Hiding Jewish girls during that occupation. So they both had this kind of extraordinary life. And And faith that kept them going in the middle of incredible horror.”
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“Well, the people... That I must Admire, you know, the writers that I learn so much from are writers who have that faith. I mean, look at. Holocaust survivors”
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“Well, it's enormous pain and grief and staying with it and living with it and also thirty-six. I didn't know if I could have a child, you know, nobody quite knew why I lost that child. But also that trust again underneath a grief there is that sense that I would have a child I would move beyond this bane, that the pain would not define me.”
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“Now that doesn't mean only good things happened. Absolutely not. A lot of bad things happened in my life starting with losing my first child that was born stillborn. You know, so it's not like Bad things didn't happen, but it's like what is it teaching us? Like life is a schoolroom and we are constantly learning. And that's for me. In the end, that sense of evolution and growth and That in one of the books I wrote are called The Fourth Instinct You know, the first three instincts being survival, sex and status slash power, the fourth instinct being an instinct for meaning, purpose, transcendence, That's something which, I When it's integrated in our lives gives life so much more depth and richness.”
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“So that's just as depleting, believe it or not, as things really bad things that do happen. Because that's how we process information. And so Trust One of the things that my mother totally instilled in my sister and me was the sense that we are living in a benevolent universe. It means that life is on our side. You know, there are people who go through life and think that at best we are living in an indifferent universe. That the higher power or god or whatever you want to call it, you know, the order of the universe doesn't care. There are people who think it's a hostile universe. I believe profoundly that it's a benevolent universe. I trust That whatever happens has a reason and a purpose. And that's the rumi quote Live life as if everything is rigged in your favour.”
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“meaning imagining the worst about the future. And one other little saying I have on my desk is by the French philosopher Montaine who said there were many terrible things in my life, but most of them never happened.”
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“But one is not to look over our shoulder for approval. Not to indulge in unnecessary worries and negative fantasies When I look back at my journals, you know, I like to journal a lot. And when I look back at my journals, so many of my worries were truly negative fantasies.”
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“And also, I'm a big believer in good acquisitions. You know, a lot of acquisitions fail. The acquisition by OL was a huge success because we suddenly had all these resources to grow a lot faster.”
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“Absolutely absolutely look at what's happening now. I would say that I solved too soon, but I'm a bigger believer in selling too soon rather than too late. If you're going to pick something, sell too soon.”
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“That means we don't have to learn about French labor laws, we don't have to find an office space. You know, we kind of, there's so much the partner would bring. Plus, of course, the reputation. So I prevailed, which was touch and go, And Just over a year we're in eighteen countries. That would never have happened. Everybody who wanted to do it after us fade business inside her. It was too late. We had already established ourselves in this country.”
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“I would say that I'm hesitating because what came to me is an amazing decision that I was That everybody thought I was wrong on, and I don't want to say that because it's also something else that's very important, I think, for anyone starting a business, which is my incredible belief in partnerships. You know, very often when you are building a company, you think that you have to do everything. But speed is incredibly important. Being a first mover is incredibly important. And it's very hard to do that if you want to do everything yourself. Yourself as a company. So when The Having Ambassador was bought by AOL, the CFO, the board, everybody wanted us to Go internationally alone. And I wanted to do it with partners. I felt that we're going to be able to move so much faster if we go as we did to France in partnership with Le Monde.”
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“Yes, and listen, when I was on the board of Uber during the height of the bad culture problems, I saw how A culture is really the company's immune system. You know, there are always going to be bad apples. You know, it's humanity. But if you have a good, thriving culture, the bad apples are Can be removed without infecting the culture. If the culture is not strong, it's the other around.”
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