2016-04-11
53 分钟However magnificent what we may be doing in the world is, who we are in our essence is more magnificent.
And I feel that sleep is also a gateway to the mystery of being alive.
My guest today is Ariana Huffington.
I'm sure you recognize the name.
She is the co founder of the Huffington Post.
She's been a longtime voice and activist in everything, everything from politics to art and music and society, and somebody who's championed and really refocusing to champion a new definition of success.
And that was kicked off really by an incident in 2007 where she literally passed out and realized that the way she had been living her life, building her life and building her business and contributing to the world was not the way that she wanted to continue doing it.
That also kicked off a really deep fascination with sleep.
What it does to us and for us, and how we've developed an incredibly dysfunctional relationship with this massively important piece of our ability to live good lives.
So we dive into all these different things, into her journey into the role of family and culture, into redefining success and living a good life, and into the power and sort of the nuances and the details and some of the big challenges and mythology around this idea of sleep.
Really excited to share this conversation.
And she also wraps all of this up in a new book called the Sleep Revolution.
I'm Jonathan Fields.
This is Good Life project.
So it's kind of fun sitting down with you for a whole bunch of different reasons.
Your public story has been well told many times.
What I'm more curious about is sort of more of your internal story.
When you do a quick look for you online on your Twitter profile, you start out with two things, which is mother and sister.
It's not a business thing.
It's like your profile starts with those two things, which made me really curious just what the role of family is in your life.