Arianna Huffington on the two skills that are vital in the new world order
Human beings are labouring under the illusion that in order to succeed we need to be burnt out and stressed, says Arianna Huffington, founder of The Huffington Post. "Multi-tasking is a myth and one of the most stressful myths we believe in. Multi-tasking is really task switching," Huffington said, speaking at the Discovery Leadership Summit. Huffington — who in 2008 fainted from exhaustion, broke her cheekbone and went on to write a book called The Sleep Revolution — said people were addicted to their devices, which had deepened the crisis of burnout. "The science is clear: human beings need time to recharge. We take better care of our smartphones than ourselves. I bet you all know how much battery you have left on your smartphone." This culture was captured in the Google algorithm, Huffington said: she had Googled ‘Why am I’, and Google had autocompleted it, ‘Why am I so tired?’. Depriving ourselves of sleep led to memory loss and Alzheimer’s later on in life, Huffington said. "If...
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