Dear Arianna Huffington: I don't want to thrive

I just want to live a fulfilling life

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In her new best-selling book Thrive: The Third Metric to Redefining Success and Creating a Life of Well-Being, Wisdom, and Wonder, Arianna Huffington argues that there is much more to life than money and power.

The Huffington Post founder, in an effort to combat time famine (the apparently highly contagious epidemic of our over-working age), calls for making room in our lives for things like meditation, yoga, volunteer-work, museum visits, and long conversations uninterrupted by smartphones.

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Elissa Strauss

Elissa Strauss writes about the intersection of gender and culture for TheWeek.com. She also writes regularly for Elle.com and the Jewish Daily Forward, where she is a weekly columnist.