From the course: Arianna Huffington's Thrive 05: Igniting Joy through Presence and Wonder

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Isabella Huffington on finding connections

Isabella Huffington on finding connections

- As Eric Baker, a writer who studies how human behavior affects productivity wrote, those who can sit in a chair, undistracted for hours, mastering subjects, and creating things will rule the world, while the rest of us frantically try to keep up with texts, Tweets, and other incessant interruptions. This quote perfectly describes my other daughter, Isabella. So throughout the class you've been meeting my personal thrive tribe. You've met my daughter Christina, you met my sister. Now it's time to meet Isabella. Isabella is an accomplished artist. She graduated last year with a major in art history, but she's been painting ever since she was a little girl, and the painting behind us is one she specially did for our course, and it's called Thrive, and I want to tell you, and I want Isabella to help teach us all that I've learned from her, starting with the fact that she really knows how to uni task. She really knows how to shut out all distractions, all interruptions, all incoming…

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