#136 Arianna Huffington: Microsteps and Rituals to Help You Thrive

Feel Better, Live More with Dr Rangan Chatterjee

Dr Rangan Chatterjee

Health & Fitness, Medicine, Alternative Health, Mental Health

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🗓️ 2 December 2020

⏱️ 93 minutes

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Summary

In times of uncertainty, anxiety and stress, taking care of your wellbeing is more important than ever and no one knows this better than my guest on today’s episode. Arianna Huffington is author and businesswoman who founded the original ‘internet newspaper’, The Huffington Post. She’s also one of Time magazine’s 100 Most Influential People in the World and on Forbes’ Most Powerful Women list.

After collapsing at her desk from sleep deprivation and exhaustion in 2007, Arianna became more passionate about the connection between wellbeing and performance. She therefore launched a company called Thrive Global with a mission of ending the stress and burnout epidemic by offering individuals, companies and communities sustainable, science-based solutions to wellbeing.

Arianna and I share a desire to show millions of people globally that habit change and healthy living doesn’t have to be hard. We are both passionate that tiny ‘microsteps’ that we can all take each day, can have a dramatic impact on our health and the quality of our lives.

Arianna talks me through her Thrive app, which is like a ‘health coach in your pocket’ and how it uses the concept of ‘microsteps’ to show that behaviour change doesn’t have to be a huge commitment. Small things you can do that, if regular and consistent, will add up to significant and lasting benefits.

We discuss the idea of ‘compassionate directness’ as a way of resolving tensions both at home and at work. Arianna shares her wisdom on sleep, motherhood, on creating boundaries when working from home, and on having rituals to mark the end of the day. We also speak about the importance of solitude and discuss how modern life is sending many of us back to ancient wisdom and texts such as the Bhagavad Gita.

This conversation is full of brilliant tips and I hope you enjoy it as much as I did.

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0:00.0	I think we need to use what the fashion industry is using and the entertainment industry is using to sell things.
0:10.4	They know how to connect to people's hearts, not just their minds.
0:15.4	So why not take the same tools to help people make the right better choices for themselves?
0:24.4	Hi, my name is Ron Goodchastigy. Welcome to Feel Better Live More.
0:34.0	So we are living in uncertain times, stresses up, anxiety is up, and in times like these,
0:42.4	taking care of your well-being is more important than ever.
0:47.0	And nobody knows this better than my guest on today's show. Ariana Huffington is an author and she's a business woman who founded the original internet newspaper, The Huffington Post.
1:00.6	She's also one of Time magazine's 100 Most Influential People in the Worlds and she also features on Forbes's most powerful women in the world list.
1:13.4	Ariana collapsed at a desk from sleep deprivation and exhaustion all the way back in 2007.
1:20.6	And since then she has become more and more passionate about the connection between well-being and performance.
1:27.0	She has therefore launched a company called Thrive Global with a mission of ending the stress and burnout epidemic by offering individuals, companies and communities sustainable science-based solutions to well-being.
1:41.8	And on the show today, Ariana and I cover a whole variety of different subjects areas.
1:47.8	We both share a desire to show millions of people around the world that habit change and healthy living really doesn't have to be that hard.
1:56.4	We're both passionate that tiny micro steps that we can all take each day can have a dramatic impact on our health and as a consequence, the quality of our lives.
2:07.8	Now Ariana's organization has created the wonderful Thrive app which is a bit like having a health coach in your pocket.
2:15.0	And it uses the concepts of micro steps to show that behavior change doesn't have to be a huge commitment.
2:23.0	Now one of my favorite parts of this conversation is when we discuss the gorgeous idea of compassionate directness as a way of resolving tensions at work, but also at home.
2:35.6	We talk about sleep, motherhood, the importance of solitude, how to create boundaries when working from home and the importance of rituals to mark the end of the day.
2:48.0	Now Ariana as someone whose work I have respected and been aware of for many years.
2:53.8	And it really wasn't on a for me to have some time speaking with this incredible individual.
2:59.4	This conversation is full of brilliant tips and I hope you enjoy it as much as I did.
3:06.0	Before we get started just a quick shout out to some of today's sponsors.
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