Thrive Global CEO Arianna Huffington on Well-Being, High Performance, Habit Development

Finding Mastery with Dr. Michael Gervais

Dr. Michael Gervais

Sport Psychology, Finding Mastery, Mental Health, Mindfulness, Business, Self Help, Michael Gervais, Health & Fitness, Mindset, Psychology, Self-improvement, Education

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🗓️ 25 October 2017

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

This conversation is with Arianna Huffington.

Arianna is the founder and CEO of Thrive Global, the founder of The Huffington Post, and the author of 15 books, including, most recently, Thrive and The Sleep Revolution.

Arianna has been named to Time Magazine's list of the world’s 100 most influential people and the Forbes Most Powerful Women list.

In May 2005, she launched The Huffington Post, in 2012 won a Pulitzer Prize for national reporting. In August 2016, she launched Thrive Global, a corporate and consumer well-being and productivity platform with the mission of changing the way we work and live by ending the collective delusion that burnout is the price we must pay for success.

With that in mind, a big focus of this conversation is on recovery.

We discuss what it’s going to take to get people to care about recovery and the specific moment that made her realize why it can't be overlooked.

In many of the Finding Mastery conversations, guests have shared how hard it is for them to “turn it off” and in this conversation, Arianna shares some tactics she’s developed to improve in this area, including creating an “artificial” end to your day.

We get into the keys to her continued success, how she copes with anxiety and depression, and what can be done to fix the current political climate.

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0:00.0	For so many decades, we've thought of performance and well-being as somehow being in opposition
0:09.0	to each other.
0:10.0	Even the term work-life balance, if you think of of it suggests that somehow you have to balance the two,
0:15.6	while the truth is that the rise or fall in tandem. I'm Michael Jervais. I'm Michael Jervais.
0:24.0	Right.
0:25.0	I'm Michael Jervais.
0:27.0	And the idea behind these conversations is to learn
0:36.0	and to learn how to apply the insights from people on the path of mastery. And we want to
0:40.9	understand more specifically what they're searching for.
0:44.4	We want to understand their psychological framework, which is how they see the world,
0:48.0	their craft, and how they explain events in their life.
0:50.2	And we also want to dig to understand the mental skills that they've used to build and refine their world-class craft.
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1:00.0	Your brain is one of the hungriest organs in your body.
1:03.0	It's been found to consume roughly around 20% of your energy every day.
1:08.0	That means an important factor between the days you feel sluggish and the days that you feel sharp is how fuel efficient your
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1:27.0	If you've ever had days where you felt tired or stressed or unmotivated,
1:31.0	those may be signs of suboptimal or low levels of dopamine, among many other
1:36.5	potential factors, of course.
1:39.1	When dopamine is optimized, it's been linked to enhanced mood and motivation, focus, attention, mental clarity, learning.
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