Huffington urges need to redefine success
Do-Hyeong MyeongArianna Huffington urged the need for a definition of success that accounts for personal well-being in a panel discussion held on Tuesday.In her latest book, “Thrive: The Third Metric to Redefining Success and Creating a Life of Well-Being, Wisdom and Wonder,” Huffington, chair, president and editor in chief of The Huffington Post Media Group, claims that people need to stop associating success only with money and power and instead consider “the Third Metric of success.” The Third Metric is constituted of what Huffington calls “four pillars” — well-being, wisdom, wonder and giving.Huffington said that her own collapse in 2007 due to extreme stress allowed her to question the traditional metrics of success.“By conventional definition of success, I was successful,” she said, “but by any sane definition of success, if you are lying in a pool of blood on the floor … you are not successful.”That experience led Huffington to ask herself the questions that “all the philosophers have asked forever — What is good life?
