INBOUND 2013 - Arianna Huffington Keynote

Arianna Huffington's INBOUND 2013 keynote argues that modern leadership must be redefined to include a third metric — well-being — alongside money and power. She links creativity and effective leadership to renewal practices (sleep, naps, mindfulness, disconnecting from technology), recounts personal anecdotes and organizational examples (Huffington Post policies, corporate mindfulness adoption), and urges leaders—particularly women—to cultivate inner wisdom, resilience, and generosity in turbulent times.
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Thank you so much. That was such an incredible, incredible video. And it really brought a special energy in the room. And I saw a lot of people put their iPhones and their blackberries down, down. Let's keep it that way. For those of you who have not heard me before, this accent is for real. It's been the bane of my existence. I struggled for years, especially when I lived in England and went to school at Cambridge, and I was laughed at. And basically I didn't relax about my accent until I moved to the States and met Henry Kissinger. And he said to me, never worry about your accent. He said, in American public life, you can never underestimate the advantages of complete and total incomprehensibility. So I'm really excited to be speaking here with you. I feel that. Oh, my switches. Sit down on the floor. I feel that speaking about leadership to a group of young and older leaders at a moment like that, which is incredibly turbulent, uncertain, and despite Nate Silver's genius, completely unpredictable, is a remarkable opportunity to really talk about leadership in some new ways. And for me, if you look at leadership now, it's a little bit of a split screen world. Let's get my jacket off and get going. You basically have on one screen an amazing number of leaders who are very smart, high IQs, great degrees, making terrible decisions in business, in media, in politics. Basically, look at Washington. It's incredibly depressing. It's really looking again and again at people who seem to be incapable of making anything but suboptimal decisions about our biggest problems. And then you go into American workplaces or workplaces anywhere in the world, and they are largely fueled by burnouts, sleep deprivation, exhaustion, a kind of very male model, sorry, guys. Of success, which is working 24 7, driving yourself into the ground and ending up with a corner office and a heart attack in your 50s. Not a great model. So on the other side of the split screen is just an amazing new world that's emerging of people and companies that are realizing that, in fact, we need to find ways to renew ourselves if we are going to be really creative leaders. Because you cannot really manage creativity. You have to manage for creativity. You have to create a space in which creativity can emerge in. If you read the biography that Walter Isaacson wrote of Steve Jobs, Steve Jobs very specifically talked about how it was after Zen meditation, it was when he had stopped dealing with whatever was coming in that he was able to create a space to come up with all these ideas that led to the iconic products that we are all using today. Bill Gates famously has think weeks when he leaves all his devices behind and goes off to the mountains and thinks. Many great leaders that we know of and many that we don't know of have some way of tapping into their own wisdom and creativity. And that requires really redefining success. Because right now success is mostly defined in terms of two metrics, money and power. And that's like a two legged stool. If you see success purely in these terms, sooner or later you're going to fall off that stool. So I started talking recently about a third metric of success, which consists of our well being. Because you know what, if we don't take care of our well being and our health, our human capital, basically nothing else really matters. Our wisdom. How do we tap into that wisdom that we all have inside us? But very often we are so disconnected from it. Our capacity to wonder, to celebrate life, to look at life. You walk down streets now and most people are not looking at anything except their iPhones or even just listening to something on their ipods. It's as though we're afraid of space and silence and also our ability to give back, which was what this amazing video was about. That's really what makes a complete life. But the way we define success, the way many companies are run and led by, does not promote these other values. It just promotes the first two. And that's why you have this language of war metaphors in corporate America. We're killing it, we're crushing it, the whole sort of Darwinian thing going on. And as a result, people are living in a constant fight or flight mode. And now my new role models in life are gazelles. I want you to look at gazelles. So here's what happens with them. If there is a danger, you know, a leopard appears or something, gazelles run like crazy. The minute the danger is over, they graze. We just need to learn to graze. We are running all the time. We are running even when there are no leopards or lions or anything. This is like the mode we are in. So as a result, I'm not who is doing that. You know, I'm not surprised that the CEO of Inbound, I was following him on Twitter, Dharmesh, and he tweeted in the middle of the night last night that he could not sleep. He said he just gave this great presentation. He talked to everybody afterwards and he could not sleep. And his hashtag was I hate insomnia. So first of all, Dharmesh, just go to the Huffington Post sleep section. We have an enormous amount of things that you can do to be able to sleep beautifully like a baby tonight. Also another thing, take a nap. I don't know where you are, but take it. Take a 20 minute nap. You know, if you are tired, it's much better to stop, take a nap, and then get back to your day at the Huffington Post. We have two nap rooms. And at first everybody was saying to me, we have the great Shaheen here who does some of our best financial reporting. So you can attest to that. At the beginning, everybody would say, nobody's going to be sick, seen walking into a nap room in the middle of the afternoon. Now they are perpetually booked. We have to open a third one. And I must say, the other day I was walking by one of them and I saw two people coming out of one of the nap rooms. You know, I thought to myself, whatever it takes to recharge, just don't tell hr. But my point is that if you look at what leaders have written about their mistakes. Bill Clinton famously said that he made his biggest mistakes when he was really tired. He did not specify what mistakes those were. But if you look at, if you read a biography of Winston Churchill or Leonardo da Vinci or jfk, they were great nappers. The point is, how do you reconnect with your own energy, renew yourself and then get back into your life, get back into all the things that you love to do, but not from a place of exhaustion and burnout. Burnout is the disease of our civilization. And if I can talk to the women in the room, women will have to lead the way out of it. Not because men aren't going to be huge beneficiaries when we are out of it, but because you guys have designed the world we're living in and it's not really working. You know, it's not working for men, it's not working for women, it's not working for polar bears. It's not working for anybody. So if we are going to really cultivate leaders who will be able to take us through these turbulent times, they need to be able to first of all see the icebergs before they hit the Titanic. That's leadership. Everybody can see the iceberg after it has hit the Titanic. Erin Cullen, who was the CFO of Lehman Brothers just before Lehman Brothers went bankrupt, wrote a very moving piece in the New York Times recently in which she described her life. She said she had no life. She was working around the clock. Her marriage was destroyed, her relationships were destroyed. And the thing she didn't say is that and Lehman Brothers went bankrupt. So that's the thing that I want everybody to understand. It's not like it's a trade off, like I'm just going to build this great company and help with my relationships and my life and my health. No, you can no longer do that. Because the world is moving so fast. Change is happening at such overwhelming speed that if you're not really connected with your own wisdom, your own intuition, if you are not able to listen to what Steve Jobs called the whisperings, if you're not going to be able to tap into the zeitgeist to know what the needs are before even your customers know what they need. People didn't know they needed an ipod, did they? If you don't know all that, you're not going to be able to be an effective leader. That's why I love the name Inbound. Because inbound means also going inward into yourself. It's not all about being outward. Our lives are so outbound at the moment, we need to make them more inbound. In fact, the great philosopher Plotinus in the third century said that there were three forms of knowledge and they were opinion, science and illumination. Now, opinion and science data, we are swimming in, we are drowning in. But illumination and wisdom is exactly what we need desperately, more than ever right now. And I love going back to the ancients because the great thing right now is this combination of ancient wisdoms and modern practices. Practices and whatever it is that you are creating, remember there is a lot of wisdom we can tap into and bring it back into whatever new we are creating. When we launched the Huffington Post in 2005, it was really going back to some of the best things of journalism, of communication, of aesthetics. We actually hired someone who was designing New Yorker covers to design the COVID because we wanted a more old fashioned typeface. You walk into this convention hall and it's great that it's old. And you go into the new one by the airport and it's like, I'm sorry, is anybody here from that place? Because it just doesn't seem human. So. So bringing in the ancient and the modern together in every sphere of life is incredibly powerful. And whenever we are creating something new, it doesn't mean we are abandoning something old. At Hothbrush, for example, the thing that I love the most is that we can be a journalistic enterprise and be a platform, that we can have 850 journalists and reporters and engineers around the world, but we can also have tens of thousands of people who otherwise might not have a voice, have a voice, and One of my favorite things is when we discover something on somebody's blog that gets like a few dozen readers and then we ask them if we can move it on the Huffington Post and it just goes crazy. I mean, there is a post that's my favorite. I urge you all to read that. We posted last week by mother called the Day I Stopped saying hurry up. She has a six year old child and she was writing how she used to say to her daughter, hurry up, hurry up and have your breakfast. Hurry up and get dressed. Hurry up and go to school. Hurry up and go to bed. And she suddenly said this is the way to just drive her crazy at the age of six and that's how we lead our lives. And she wrote that. And suddenly it has over a million likes and, and 7 million people have read it and it just took off. And that's the magic of the Internet. That's the magic of what can happen right now that somebody with something to say that resonates can really take off. And in fact, I want to invite all of you who have something to say, otherwise you would not be here to say it on the Huffington Post. And we don't care where else you say it. It's not about exclusivity. It's about distribution. It's about making it available to millions more people around the world. And to make it easy for you to bypass the Huffington Post growing bureaucracy, I am going to give you my email address, which is Arianna with 1R and 2M'suffingtonpost.com that's what happens when you found a company. You get the good email address. So send me anything about your sleep habits and your marketing habits because they are connected. And in fact, when the title of my speech that was chosen was Leadership from Politics to the Boardroom, I actually wanted to add the bedroom because leadership in many ways starts in the bedroom. I mean, my bedroom, for example, is a completely table technology free zone. I never take my devices to bed. I never take iPads, iPhones, blackberries. I don't charge them near my bed because I feel it's imperative to be able to have uninterrupted renewal time, not to actually be tempted if you're going to be waking up in the middle of the night for whatever reason. If you can't sleep like Dharmesh last night he was tempted to get his iPhone or BlackBerry and tweet because it must have been really close to your bed, which is an absolute no no. If you go to the Huffington Post sleep section and the truth of the matter is it's great to read real books. Does anybody here still read real books? Great. So I only read real books by my bed. And you create that kind of atmosphere of disconnecting from your day, renewing yourself and getting back into your day with new energy and new passion and enthusiasm rather than dragging yourself through the day. Isn't that the worst feeling when you really sometimes want to crawl under your desk? So men have actually, to a large extent, been responsible for that again, because they have somehow equated sleep deprivation with virility. I had dinner with a guy recently who bragged that he had only gotten four hours sleep the night before. And I didn't say it, but I thought to myself, you know what? If you had gotten five, this dinner would have been a lot more interesting. And that has always led to what has been called time famine. That we are all walking through life feeling that we are running out of time, that it's always later than we think. And it's a terrible way to live your life. In fact, in many surveys, when they ask people what they want, more of the question is often answered by saying time. People want more time. More time for themselves, more time for their children, more time for their families, more time for their hobbies. They want that more than they want more money. So the truth is that when we redefine success beyond money and power to include all these other elements of the well being and wisdom and wonder and giving back, then somehow time opens up for us and we don't live life through that breathless way as though we are missing out on something. And it's very hard to lead from that place because that's a place where you always feel like you are behind. And if you are behind, it's really hard to also lead. Another thing that's very important here is being able to complete projects. Now I discovered early on in life that you can actually complete a project by dropping it. And this has been incredibly useful to me. For example, I thought that I was going to learn German. I thought I was going to become a good skier. I thought I was going to learn to cook. And one day I decided I was actually never going to do any of these things, so I dropped them. So when I go skiing now with my friends or my children, they go skiing and I sit by the fire and read books and I feel fabulous. So you just have to decide what are you going to put your energy into and what you are not going to put your energy into. And that's just as valuable because if you pretend to yourself that you are one day maybe going to put your energy into skiing or cooking or whatever, but you are not really going to, your subconscious treats this as an incomplete project. So you need to give your message to your subconscious that this is done. We're done with that. And that also means, I mean, I leave movies in the middle. I leave plays in the middle. I decide that I'm never going to finish this book. It's not interesting enough. It's fine. You can do all these things. Just do them with clarity. This movie is dreadful. I'm working out. It does not deserve another 15 minutes of my life. And also this relationship. How many people stick to relationships for whatever reason? I mean, I, for example, was very much in love with a man in my 20s who was twice my age and half my size. But that's another story. Laugh is blind. And by the time I got to be 30 and I really, really wanted to have children, he decided he really, really wanted to have cats and no children. And I decided I really wanted to have children. So I left. And because I didn't trust myself to stay in London, where we lived at the time, and not go back to him, I left and moved to New York. And really, everything that happened in my life, my children, the Huffington Post being here, speaking to you today, happened because a man wouldn't marry me. Remember that. Because very often the worst things in life, the things that seem terrible heartbreaks at the time, are the best things that could have happened to you because they open doors to other things that otherwise would not happen. So remember that. Because, you know, life only makes sense when you look back. Life doesn't really make sense as you are living it. And one of my favorite poets that I love to read in bed is Rumi. And Rumi said something that I love, which is, live your life as though everything is rigged in your favor. You know how often we go through life acting as though everything is rigged against us, acting from a kind of victim consciousness, as though things are happening to us. And that's a very disempowered place from which to live and from which to lead. You cannot lead from that place because you know what? Every day things are going to happen that you don't like. Hi, Nate. Nate Silver. I don't know if you're here yet, but this is a big prediction that I'm making right now. I'm predicting that everybody here will have things happening to you today, tomorrow, the day after that. You are not happy they're happening to You. So the only thing we're in control of is our attitude to what is happening to us. And if we can move to a place of imperturbability. It's a big word for a Greek girl, but it's a fabulous word because you can really practice to be in that place. And whatever happens, deal with it from that place. It's an incredibly powerful place to lead from because whatever happens, you kind of expand to include it. You are bigger than whatever happens to. To you. The alternative is to contract the minute something happens, and then you are smaller than what just happened to you. And you see, leaders are able to take the most adverse circumstances and turn them around. They're able to take criticism and move on despite that. And it gets easier and easier and easier. Trust me, I know. When we launched the Huffington Post on day one, we had terrible reviews. One of them, I've learned by heart, it said, the Huffington Post is an unsurvivable failure. It is the movie equivalent of Gilly, Heaven's Gate, and Ishtar all rolled into one. And the person who wrote that review a year later sent me an email saying I was wrong. The Haffilton Post has become an indispensable part of the Internet. Can I write for you? And I said yes, because you know what is the worst thing you can do that totally saps your energy is to hold grudges. Holding grudges is like drinking poison. There is so much science now around that. There is so much science around living in the moment and being present, the whole science of mindfulness, that it is beyond any doubt that if we can actually be every day present in that day, we're at our most powerful. And this is actually ancient wisdom again. The Bible says, let the dead bury the dead. The evil of today is enough. Don't carry it with you into the next day. I mean, one of the worst, worst little needlepoint pillows that if I see it in anybody's living room, I'm really tempted to take it away and burn. It says living well is the best revenge. Really? That's such an undirected way of living your life. That's, again, how people lead their lives in some way based on what somebody else wanted them to do. You know how when people change careers, which I love, sometimes when they decide, you know what, I'm not happy doing that I'm doing that because that's what my mother wanted me to do or my neighbors wanted me to do, or a magazine I wrote in my teens. It's not who I am. And updating our images of ourselves is absolutely key. And defining success according to what is important to us, because that's our life and we can't live anybody else's life. And, you know, I had an amazing mother who taught me a lot of things, including the fact that failure, as she used to say, is not the opposite of success. Failure is a stepping stone to success. And as Seth Goddin said in his speech here, you know, if you are going to. If you say that failure is not an option, he said, then success is not an option. Increasingly today, we. When everything is constantly changing and evolving, we need to be able to create teams that are willing to fail. And as leaders, we need to be able to say, failure is part of the process of leading to great products, great companies. And if you're not willing to do that, you're not really willing to do something great. And that also involves patience. One of the worst things that we've done in corporate America is the whole system of quarterly earnings. The fact that every company now that is a public company is expected to beat expectations every quarter has led to some of the worst decisions in companies. Because instead of leading your company for growth, for progress, for great new products, you are leading your company based on beating the expectations of some stockbrokers on Wall Street. As Jeff Bezos said, screw you. And it was fantastic. For seven years, Amazon made no profit. He had the guts to say, I'm going to do it my way. If you don't have the guts to say you're going to do it your way, don't go public inbound. Are you listening? I hear you're considering an ipo. You don't have to do it. Just keep raising money. You just raised enough. And if you need more and if you decide to go public, do it your way. Don't do it the way that so many companies are doing. And they are destroying themselves and in the process, destroying our economy. Because if you hear people saying how we are coming out of the woods and things are doing better, really, millions of people are still out of work. Millions of people are graduating from college and they can't get jobs. We are living in a state of absolutely dreadful upward mobility, which has really become downward mobility. We're number 10 in upward mobility around the world. We're now behind Spain and France. And being behind France in upward mobility is a little bit like France being behind America in croissants and afternoon sex. It doesn't make sense. So one of the major problems we're having when it comes to Finding that place of wisdom and strength inside us is technology. Now, I speak as somebody who runs a 247 technology based media company, so I'm not putting down technology. I think technology has been absolutely amazing, magical, and really, in a way, has created a Garden of Eden of communication and connection. But there is a snake in the garden and that snake is hyperconnectivity. And this is the time for us to just really take charge and learn to disconnect from technology in order to connect with ourselves. Otherwise, what I'm seeing around is incredibly troubling. I was at the airport at LaGuardia today waiting to take my plane to come here. And across from me was a mother with her probably five year old little girl. And we were waiting there for about 45 minutes. They did not look at each other, they did not exchange a word. They were both buried in their smartphones. And I wonder, that child has probably grown up like that and what is this doing to her brain and how is she going to be able to have human connections? I mean, I have two daughters who are in their early 20s and at least they had a lot of years without smartphones. So they have kind of a memory of what that world is like. But what happens if you have no memory of what that world is like? That's why we launched another section on the Huffington Post called Screen Sense, where we really work with parents to, to help them deal with screens and their children. And it starts with dealing with screens and themselves. It starts with ground rules. We have always had ground rules of no devices at the dinner table, period. And it really helps to be able to have the patience of human communication. Also email. You know what, there are so many studies that over 70% of the emails you are dealing with every day are utterly useless. Maybe 90%. But there are, after Huffington Post, we have certain ground rules which include, for example, that nobody is expected to answer emails after hours or over the weekend. Everybody who works with me knows that I may send emails because I get them off my to do list, but they're not expected to respond. If there's something urgent, we'll find them, we'll call, we'll text, but 99% of the time it's not urgent. And to create a culture where you are expected to be always on because you can is just to create a culture of burnout. And a culture of burnout can never be a culture of creativity. Even if you create something, it's not going to be a culture of sustainable creativity. The thing that is different now is that you can't create a great product and rest on your laurels. You have to constantly be reinventing what you've created. The Huffington Post is unrecognizable today from what it was. We now have 70 sections. We are in eight countries. We're going to be in 15. I just look at our latest Comscore data and we are 75 million UVs and 40% of that is from outside the United States. If you're going to be a media company, you have to be a global media company today. But you cannot be constantly inventing and reinventing if you operate from burnout. And that is what is something that needs to be taught in business schools. And increasingly it is being taught in business schools. That is really one of the most amazing things that's happening. Bill George, who teaches mindfulness in leadership at Harvard, has been very eloquent about the fact that what used to be thought of as California flaky mindful meditation, yoga is now being introduced as a leadership tool. And we had our first Mika Brzezinski and I co hosted our first Third Metric Conference in New York on June 6th and we had six CEOs there like John Mackey from Whole Foods and Mark Bertolini from Aetna talking about that. And very often these leaders come to these realizations from personal experience. Mark Bertolini, for example, was your typical hard charging, fueled by burnout, CEO of the third largest health insurance company in America. And then he had a terrible skiing accident and for one year he was hooked on narcotics. And then he discovered yoga, meditation, acupuncture. And it was such a transformative effect on him that he made these benefits available to his 34,000 employees. And he said that what he wants to do now is to make these benefits available to everybody. So these are like the personal moments that transform how leaders think. And what we want to do is to accelerate these aha moments. I had my own aha moment in 2007 when in the middle of burning out myself, working around the clock, trying to be a good mom, taking my daughter around colleges and, and not using my BlackBerry during the day and instead working through the night, I actually fainted from exhaustion, hit my head on my desk, broke my cheekbone, got four stitches on my right eye. And that was my wake up moment. And after that I became an evangelist for a lot of these things. I started becoming an evangelist for sleep. When I started talking about sleep in 2007, people were thinking this was now there is unbelievable incontrovertible evidence that sleep is a leadership tool. It's a performance enhancement tool. Or as I told the graduating class of Smith when I gave the commencement there last May, it's time to slip your way to the top. So that's why we're having a growing number of companies and leaders going for digital detoxes, acknowledging that they need that. But let's do it for real. You know how many times people put out this away email, you know, I'm going away, I'm not going to be answering emails, and then two minutes later you get an email from them. Does that make you feel special? No, it just means that people can't really do it. Just do it. The world will be there when you return and you are going to be recharged and ready to deal with it from a more creative, more balanced and much wiser place. And now 25% of American companies have introduced some form of mindfulness for their employees, not because they are incredibly charitable, but because they recognize the impact on the bottom line. Stress is causing American business $300 billion. A stressed out employee is costing 46% more in terms of health benefits than a healthy employee. And for women, the numbers are much worse. That's why we women cannot afford to climb up the ladder in the same way men have done it. Forget the ladder. Anyway, as Sheryl Sandberg wrote in her book, it's not a ladder, it's a jungle gym. And my point is, it's not just about leaning in, it's also about leaning back to recharge and then lean in again. You know, there's a great French expression that the French is in case there are any French people here, they can see my accent is better in French than in English. Pour mieux sauter, which means lean back in order to lean, to jump higher, which is what cats do, you know, lean back, recharge and then you jump higher. So if you look at all that, if you think of it after all the idea that success and getting to leadership positions is just some kind of straight line is a male invention, a straight folic line. It doesn't work. You know, it's actually much more complicated. And very often it can be having a lot of detours, failing, losing a job, getting to another job. It's much more of a dance and being open to possibilities than just blindly climbing up some ladder. So that also is what makes it easier for us to overcome our own self doubts as leaders. Because very often we ignore that. We ignore that as you look around, often leaders self destruct more than they are. Destroyed by someone else. Anthony Wiener, anyone? Dominic Strauss Kahn. I remember the headline on the Huffington Post the day after Dominic Strauss Khan was caught at the Sofitel Hotel. It was, omg imf, basically. Incidentally, why is it always men? Who was the last woman who self destructed in that way? Just saying. But I really believe that if they had actually taken more time to deal with their inner demons, they would not have self destructed in those ways. And often it's also dealing. This is more of a problem for women, I'm afraid, with what I call the obnoxious roommate living in our head. You know, those voices of inner doubt. Because we women have an even greater tendency to judge ourselves. You know, all human beings have it, but men find it much easier to shut up that voice and watch a game or something and move on. And we women have to wrestle that voice into the ground. So learning to deal with that obnoxious roommate, learning to deal with our negative fantasies. You know, as Montaigne said, there were many terrible things in my life, but most of them never happened. So learning not to sort of exhaust ourselves through all these mind games that we play is just an incredible ritual for us as leaders, because then it means we have our energy available to us at all times to really lead and create, and that's just an incredible place from which to live. You know, the. The Greek philosophers had three big questions they asked. The first one was, how do we govern the city? The second one was, what do we need to know? And the third was, how do we live a good life? But modern philosophers have really stopped asking the question, how do we lead a good life? And. And as a result, they've let us all kind of reduce a good life to money and power. And yes, when you go to people's funerals and memorials, they talk about other things. They talk about the third metric. They talk about how wise somebody was, how kind someone was, how much they gave to their community. They don't say, you know, this person was worth $3 million, $225,000 when they died. Have you ever heard that in a memorial? Oh, you know, this person ended up being an svp. Amazing, no? So if we can take these values that we eulogize people about after they die and actually incorporate them into how we live, we would actually change the world. You know, Seth Gordin said in his speech here that generosity is going to become more and more important in marketing because people don't want to hear from somebody they think is selfish. And also because there Is something happening in the Zeitgeist? You know, John as Salk, before he died, summed it up by saying, we are moving from a period driven by competition and survival to a period that's going to be driven by cooperation and meaning. And in that place, qualities like humanity and generosity are going to matter much more. And that's why Adam Bain recently, when they asked him how he's going to monetize Twitter, he said, said three Humor, humanity, and huge deals. Humanity, generosity. These things are going to become increasingly important as the times we're living through are going to be more and more turbulent and uncertain. And that's why the kind of leaders that we need right now, if I can end with that, have to remember what Archimedes, my great compatriot, said. He said, give me a place to stand and I can move the world. Now, that place is inside each one of us. It's that place of strength, wisdom, peace. We all know it. We've all been there. And we all also know that most of the time, we are not there. That's why, actually, we even launched an app at the Huffington Post. Yeah, there is an app for that, and we called it GPS for the Soul. And you can download it for free from the App Store. And it gives you a proxy for your stress level, your heart rate variability. And then you can launch a guide with the things that help you course correct. That helps you de stress. The guide can have anything that you love. It can have poetry and music and pictures. In my case, it has pictures of my children when they were young and unproblematic. And it can take just under a minute. But that short time can help you reconnect with yourself. You know how your device, when it's out of range, sends you a little signal that says, restore connection. We need to say that to ourselves. Restore connection. Because if we're operating from a disconnected place, we cannot really lead. Leaders find that place that Archimedes talked about, that place of wisdom, strength, and real connection. And they lead from that place. And from that place, we can truly create miracles and change the world. Thank you. It.
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