Relying solely on willpower to lose weight, improve relationships, or excel at work often leads to failure. The surrounding environment is too powerful and stressful to overcome through sheer determination. To thrive in today’s world, one must proactively shape their environment. This concept is explored by Benjamin Hardy, who draws on extensive research and personal experiences from a challenging upbringing. He outlines how individuals can transform their lives through impactful environmental changes, such as: * Creating “enriched environments” that challenge you and encourage personal investment. * Growing into your goals by establishing multiple layers of accountability. * Taking on a leadership role to enhance skill development and commitment, even if you feel unprepared. * Rotating your environments to break free from ruts by changing your physical surroundings regularly. By implementing simple strategies like removing elements that conflict with your values—such as junk food and negative influences—and introducing new tools like fasting or positive triggers, you can actively shape your surroundings. These approaches enable you to consciously evolve into the person you aspire to be.
Arianna Huffington Books
Arianna Huffington is an author who delves into the modern definition of success and well-being. She encourages readers to re-evaluate what truly constitutes a fulfilling life. Her approach centers on finding balance and wisdom in today's fast-paced world. Through her works, she inspires a pursuit of deeper meaning and contentment.







Your Time to Thrive
- 272 pages
- 10 hours of reading
Live the life you want, not the one you settle for. Helping individuals build healthy habits is crucial in today’s world. Thrive Global, launched by Arianna Huffington, aims to combat stress and burnout while unlocking potential for both individuals and companies. Research shows that well-being is essential for peak performance; we don’t need to sacrifice our health to succeed. Learning to thrive involves moving from awareness to action, embracing science-backed solutions that engage wisdom, intuition, and reflection, and prioritizing rest and recovery to enhance productivity. It requires mindset shifts and habit changes that truly matter, rather than following trendy self-care fads. This guide introduces Microsteps—small, science-backed changes that are easy to implement in daily life, paving the way for healthier living and working. It serves as a Microstep bible, with chapters focusing on sleep, nutrition, movement, focus, communication, unplugging, creativity, and purpose. Each chapter offers practical, research-supported mini-habits that promise significant benefits, empowering individuals to thrive in all aspects of their lives.
The gods of Greece
- 216 pages
- 8 hours of reading
The text was originally published with other illustrations in 1983 by Harry N. Abrams Inc. Here it is repackaged with reproductions of over 65 paintings by Francoise Gilot (the paintings were created independently not expressly for the book). Neither the text nor the artwork are conventional explic
Maria Callas
The Woman Behind the Legend
Legendary soprano Maria Callas, whose singing was as sensational as her life, is the subject of this biography by author and columnist Huffington. Huffington tells of Callas' transformation from a shy, chubby girl into one of the greatest opera singers of all time, her passionate love affair... číst celé
Picasso Creator and Destroyer
- 440 pages
- 16 hours of reading
Huffington stips bare the romantic myths to reveal, in all its volatile complexity, Picasso's lifelong struggle between his power to create and his compulsion to destroy.
The Sleep Revolution both sounds the alarm on our worldwide sleep crisis and provides a detailed road map to the great sleep awakening that can help transform our lives, our communities and our world.
Drawing on the research and scientific findings in the fields of psychology, sports, sleep and physiology that show the profound and transformative effects of meditation, mindfulness, unplugging and giving, this book shows us the way to a revolution in our culture, our thinking, our workplaces, and our lives.
Pigs at the Trough
- 275 pages
- 10 hours of reading
The nationally syndicated columnist skewers corporate and government leaders who created an appalling system of fraud, lavishing in grossly inflated salaries and bonuses while while cheating the shareholders and citizens they claim to serve.
Observing that her own teenage daughters were beginning to experience some of the same fears that had once burdened her--how attractive am I? do people like me? do I dare speak up?--Arianna Huffington began to examine the ways in which fear affects all our lives. In stories drawn from her own experiences and from the lives of other women, she points toward the moments of extraordinary strength, courage, and resilience that result from confronting and overcoming fear. And she outlines the steps anyone can take to conquer fear. Her book shows us how to become bold from the inside out--from feeling comfortable in our own skin to getting what we want in love and at work to changing the world.
The sleep revolution. Transforming your life, one night at a time
- 400 pages
- 14 hours of reading
SLEEP & DREAMS. "In her New York Times bestseller Thrive, Arianna Huffington introduced her readers to the importance of sleep in terms of redefining success, through wisdom, wonder, well-being and giving. But the topic seemed to touch such a powerful chord, and seemed to resonate so universally in todays 24/7 fast-paced, always-connected world, that Arianna realized a full book on the critical importance of sleep to our health and lives, and on the long term danger of sleep deprivation on performance and happiness, was needed. In her new book, Arianna reveals all the ways that our inability to get enough sleep impacts our lives, undermines our decision making, compromises our health, our athletic performance, our work lives, our relationships and even our sex lives, and causes us to lose control over of how we interact with others and engage with the world.
Summary of the Sleep Revolution
- 28 pages
- 1 hour of reading
Het nieuwe succes
Een toekomst vol kracht, wijsheid en evenwicht - druk 1
- 320 pages
- 12 hours of reading
Schets van de contouren van een nieuwe definitie van succes.
Livre de Poche - 6948: Picasso, créateur et destructeur - Texte intégral
- 763 pages
- 27 hours of reading
Unsere Gesellschaft hat ein Problem mit dem Thema Schlaf. Viel Schlaf wird assoziiert mit Faulheit. Wenig Schlaf gilt als Zeichen für Leistungsfähigkeit. Permanenter Schlafmangel ist eine Epidemie unserer Gesellschaft. Die Folgen für unsere Gesundheit, unsere Leistungsfähigkeit, unsere Beziehungen und unser Lebensglück sind dramatisch. Arianna Huffington sagt: »Wir brauchen eine Schlaf-Revolution!« Gestützt auf neueste wissenschaftliche Erkenntnisse erklärt sie: »Wir müssen unser Schlafverhalten grundsätzlich überdenken, um unser Leben wieder in den Griff zu bekommen.« Wie beeinflusst moderne Technik unseren Schlaf? Welche Rolle spielen Medikamente? Diesen und vielen weiteren Fragen geht die Bestsellerautorin kompetent und sachkundig nach. Das Ergebnis wird unser Schlafverhalten revolutionieren.
Die Callas
- 336 pages
- 12 hours of reading
Chceme-li něčeho docílit, je občas potřeba se na to vyspat! Nacházíme se uprostřed krize způsobené spánkovou deprivací, která má dalekosáhlé důsledky – pro naše zdraví, pracovní výkon, vztahy a také pro naši spokojenost. Spoluzakladatelka a šéfredaktorka zpravodajského webu The Huffington Post ve své nové knize směle prohlašuje, že to, co skutečně potřebujeme, je spánková revoluce. Získat zpět kontrolu nad svými životy můžeme pouze tak, že obnovíme svůj vztah ke spánku. V dnešním zrychleném, vždy připojeném, neustále vystresovaném a spánkově deprivovaném světě je naše potřeba kvalitně prospané noci důležitější – a současně nepolapitelnější – než kdykoli předtím. Spánková revoluce bije na poplach kvůli celosvětové spánkové krizi a zároveň nabízí podrobný plán, jak dosáhnout velkého spánkového procitnutí, které nám pomůže transformovat naše životy, společenství i celý svět.











