A group of well known reporters and journalists gathered at
The Jefferson Hotel in Washington, D.C. to celebrate Arianna Huffington’s
latest book, Thrive: The Third Metric to
Redefining Success and Creating a Life of Well-Being, Wisdom, and Wonder. Hotel
owner and businesswoman Connie Milstein hosted the party along with Gail
MacKinnon and Rachel Pearson.
Huffington, best known for her news website The Huffington Post, was inspired to
write the book after spending time in the hospital due to a fall caused by
exhaustion and a lack of sleep.
“The motivation for writing the book was my own burnout, and
then looking around and seeing how many millions are burned out. And then,
asking the questions that we stop asking after college, ‘What is the good life?
What is success?’ And if you think about it, we define success, in search of
these two metrics of money and power, and in this town, especially power. And
this is like trying to sit on a two legged stool. Sooner or later you fall off.
Nothing wrong with these two metrics. It’s just that you need the third leg of
the stool,” Huffington said during the party.
Since The Jefferson underwent renovations and reopened in 2009
it has hosted a number of notable events, including a dinner between President
Obama and GOP senators, a book launch for Mark Shriver’s A Good Man, and a farewell party for former United States Secretary
of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano.
