<i>Thrive</i>'s Very Own Top Ten List

One of my favorite activities is sitting with a book and underlining the points I find most interesting. That's why I love the Amazon Kindle's "popular highlights" feature, which lets readers highlight meaningful, resonant passages and share them with other readers. Recently I checked in to see what passages readers have been highlighting in. Here are the top ten current highlights, in order of popularity.
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One of my favorite activities is sitting with a book and underlining the points I find most interesting. That's why I love the Amazon Kindle's "popular highlights" feature, which lets readers highlight meaningful, resonant passages and share them with other readers. Recently I checked in to see what passages readers have been highlighting in Thrive. Here are the top ten current highlights, in order of popularity.

1. Being connected in a shallow way to the entire world can prevent us from being deeply connected to those closest to us -- including ourselves. And that is where wisdom is found.

2. "Darling, just change the channel. You are in control of the clicker. Don't replay the bad, scary movie."

3. Sleep deprivation reduces our emotional intelligence, self-regard, assertiveness, sense of independence, empathy toward others, the quality of our interpersonal relationships, positive thinking, and impulse control.

4. "You can't connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something -- your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life."

5. Our eulogies are always about the other stuff: what we gave, how we connected, how much we meant to our family and friends, small kindnesses, lifelong passions, and the things that made us laugh.

6. To live the lives we truly want and deserve, and not just the lives we settle for, we need a Third Metric, a third measure of success that goes beyond the two metrics of money and power, and consists of four pillars: well-being, wisdom, wonder, and giving. These four pillars make up the four sections of this book.

7. And when we're living a life of perpetual time famine, we rob ourselves of our ability to experience another key element of the Third Metric: wonder, our sense of delight in the mysteries of the universe, as well as the everyday occurrences and small miracles that fill our lives.

8. When we include our own well-being in our definition of success, another thing that changes is our relationship with time.

9. The second truth is that we're all going to veer away from that place again and again and again. That's the nature of life. In fact, we may be off course more often than we are on course.

10. I'm convinced of two fundamental truths about human beings. The first is that we all have within us a centered place of wisdom, harmony, and strength.

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