891 The Power of Rest

The School of Greatness

Lewis Howes

Mindset, Relationships, Entrepreneurship, Mental Health, Education, Greatness, Fitness, Celebrity, Health, Inspiration, Success, Health & Fitness, Self-improvement, Business, Money, Self Care, Celebrity Interview

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🗓️ 20 December 2019

⏱️ 5 minutes

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Summary

OVERWORKING ISN’T THE GOAL. So often, we get a pat on the back when we run ourselves into the ground. We get recognition for always staying late at work. We answer emails at night and on the weekend. People ask us, “Wow, how do you manage to DO IT ALL?!” But what we’re really doing is destroying our minds and our bodies. We can only operate at 110% for so long. Professional athletes know the importance of rest and recovery. They work it into their schedule, and they never skip it. Why shouldn’t the rest of us do the same? For this Five Minute Friday, I revisited a conversation I had with Arianna Huffington where she shared how she reshaped her life and health after collapsing from burnout. Arianna Huffington is the founder of The Huffington Post, the founder and CEO of Thrive Global, and the author of fifteen books. She’s no stranger to hard work, but a life-changing event made her drastically change her approach. Learn how to thrive and stop being exhausted in Episode 891. In This Episode You Will Learn: Why Arianna collapsed from exhaustion (1:30) What athletes know better than most people (2:30) What Arianna implemented at Huffington Post (3:00)

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0:00.0	This is 5 Minute Friday!
0:05.6	Welcome everyone to today's episode with the one the only Ariana Huffington for those who have not heard of her
0:18.1	then you probably never been online because she runs the incredibly successful and popular Huffington Post
0:25.1	and in 2012 the Huffington Post became the first commercially run US Digital Media Enterprise
0:31.3	to win a Pulitzer Prize and as of 2014 she is listed as the 52nd most powerful woman in the world
0:39.1	by Forbes. She is also a TV personality and New York Times bestselling author for her newest
0:44.3	book called Thrive, the third metric to redefining success and creating a life of well-being, wisdom,
0:50.7	and wonder. Eight years ago two years into launching the Huffington Post I collapsed from exhaustion,
1:02.5	burnout and sleep deprivation and that started me on this journey of recognizing that it wasn't just me
1:12.4	that our whole world is suffering from what a Belgian philosopher has called civilization's disease
1:20.6	burnout and that we are all living under the collective delusion that burnout is the only way to succeed
1:29.4	and I'm really excited now that modern science is proving this wrong and that's why at the end of
1:36.5	Thrive I have 55 pages of scientific and notes to prove that in fact contrary to what we have
1:43.8	believed for decades sleep meditation pauses to the newer selves our performance enhance one
1:52.0	too and I'm actually thrilled to be talking to you because you come from the world of sport
1:56.6	yes originally and athletes we need our sleep you know you are ahead of business people you are
2:04.5	ahead of the rest of the world in recognizing that there is no trade off now between taking care of
2:09.9	yourself and winning yes in fact our muscles won't recover exactly I mean as a marathon runner
2:18.7	an Olympic marathon runner said he said I can run really hard the problem is recovery yeah
2:24.8	and and that's why I'm just launching this Thrive E course with Opera which launches on May 3rd
2:33.3	and every week it's a six week course every week we work on two steps and have a different
2:39.0	guest teacher so my first guest teacher is Kobe Bryant because I wanted to have somebody
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