thrive_ the third metric to red - huffington arianna

[...]... that, as the workplace is currently structured, a lot of women don’t want to get to the top and stay there because they don’t want to pay the price—in terms of their health, their well-being, and their happiness When women do leave high-powered jobs, the debate is largely taken over by the binary stay-at-home-mom versus the independent career woman question But, in fact, when women at the top—or near... Gazelles Are My Role Models At The Huffington Post, since the news never stops, and there is the temptation for editors, reporters, and engineers to try to match the twenty-four-hour news cycle, we do a lot to prevent burnout First, we make it very clear that no one is expected to check work email and respond after hours or over the weekend (unless, of course, these are their working hours) Everyone... out the time and energy we have for real human connection Worse, there is evidence that it can begin to actually rewire our brains to make us less adept at real human connection David Roberts, a writer for the environmental online magazine Grist, saw this happening in his own life “I am burnt the f— out,” he wrote in a memorable good-bye -to -the- Internet-and-his-job-fora-year letter So he decided to. .. phone during a meal with family, co-workers, friends, and especially kids, at home or a restaurant, pierces the sanctity of mealtime or, as I like to think of it, the invisibleceremonial-dome-under-which-humankind-forges-civilization.” She wants to add inappropriate phone-checking to the standard list of etiquette no-nos: “I seriously look forward to the day when the widely accepted practice of having... twice as likely as men to die within a year of the attack, and women in high-stress jobs are more likely to become alcoholics than women in low-stress jobs Stress and pressure from high-powered careers can also be a factor in the resurgence of eating disorders in women ages thirty-five to sixty Most of the time, the discussion about the challenges of women at the top centers around the difficulty of navigating... when an entire company decides to take an email vacation That’s what Shayne Hughes, CEO of Learning as Leadership, decided to do in 2013, sending out an announcement that “all internal e-mail is forbidden for the next week.” Employees were skeptical, but he says the results were unequivocal “Our high-octane, stay-on-top-of-whatever-is-happening-via-e-mail mentality disappeared,” he wrote in Forbes “In... of these habits are the product of deeply ingrained cultural norms, it is even harder This is the challenge we face in redefining success This is the challenge we face in making Third Metric principles part of our daily lives This book is about the lessons I’ve learned and my efforts to embody the Third Metric principles—a process I plan to be engaged in for the rest of my life It also brings together... techno-stress And it’s not just the never-ending edeluge of emails we never get to the growing pile that just sits there, judging us all day—but even the ones we do get to, the replied -to emails that we think should be making us feel good Linda Stone worked on emerging technologies at both Apple and Microsoft in the 1980s and ’90s In 1997, she coined the term “continuous partial attention” to describe the. .. lives And the need is urgent for some new blueprints to reconcile the two In Plato’s Apology, Socrates defines his life’s mission as awakening the Athenians to the supreme importance of attending to their souls His timeless plea that we connect to ourselves remains the only way for any of us to truly thrive Too many of us leave our lives—and, in fact, our souls—behind when we go to work This is the guiding... working for men, either If we’re going to redefine what success means, if we are going to include a Third Metric to success, beyond money and power, it’s going to be women who will lead the way—and men, freed of the notion that the only road to success includes taking the Heart Attack Highway to Stress City, will gratefully join both at work and at home This is our third women’s revolution The first women’s . as the workplace is currently structured, a lot of women don’t want to get to the top and stay there because they don’t want to pay the price—in terms of their health, their well-being, and their. that the people who were genuinely thriving in their lives were the ones who had made room for well-being, wisdom, wonder, and giving. Hence the Third Metric was born the third leg of the stool. speakers,” I told the women graduates, “are traditionally expected to tell the graduating class how to go out there and climb the ladder of success. But I want to ask you instead to redefine success.