Book notes: Thrive or what I learned about how to manage your life from Arianna Huffington

Back when I was working at Deloitte, I remember having a conversation with a senior manager who was talking about careers and what millenials were interested in. I told the senior manager that I didn’t think millenials were after that ‘carrot’ of partnership. A lot of people hustle and grind their way to the very top. They work long hours, weekends and evenings. They sell millions of dollars of projects. They attend events with clients. And this is all so that they can make it to that coveted partner level. But here’s the thing that a partner told me, once you reach the partner level, there’s another ladder to climb. The grind doesn’t really stop. It’s not that millenials do not care about getting promoted and rising up in the company but it’s more that they want that balance at the same time. Take it from me, people want it all — they want the work life balance, they want the challenge of work, they want to grow and they want to get promoted all the while. I also think that millenials and many more people these days are being given the option of choosing between work and family, and although it’s not quite that dichotomy all the time, people are choosing family over work.

Arianna Huffington led that life while writing best selling books, running a huge media company (Huffington Post) and…