Realized it was my own personal wake-up call after i collapse from exhaustion and burnout in 2007. we all reflect in our culture that millions of people are burnt out. Tell me about that. You are on the floor bleeding. I literally collapsed. I hit my head on my desk, broke my cheekbone, got four stitches over my right eye, and i started asking a question, by conventional definitions of success, which is mostly the first two metrics of money and power, but you are not successful if you are lying in a pool of blood on your office floor. So it started looking at why i was overworking and not learning to take care of myself, to unplug and recharge, sleep enough, all the things that now we all realize actually our performance enhancers. It is not like there is a trade-off. That is what led to my idea that there is a third metric of real success, which is how to drive. That involves well-being, wisdom, the capacity to wonder, and ringing joy into your life, and giving. One of your big things is get as much sleep as you can. We have 55 pages of notes in the book about science on this. Science says sleep is a powerful performance enhancement. Sleep deprivation is dangerous. It kills brain cells. Now we are also discovering that it kills startups. Do you think you would have been as successful as you have been if you did not sacrifice sleep along the way? Absolutely. This is the delusion of our civilization. Because that is how more successful people have done it, we think that is the only way to do it. But the truth is, people are successful because of their talent, passion, and i think people would be able to navigate their lives -- and i can say that about myself -- much more effectively and with much less sacrifice, if we actually prioritize our own well-being and our own capacity to connect. This is also about leadership. If you think about it, leadership is really about seeing the iceberg before it hits the titanic. If you look at the financial collapse, how many chief executives missed the signals and were completely caught unaware? I feel right now that there is a new listening. I have been sitting here 12 years at linkedin, google, twitter, and this is a conversation that is resonating. One of the things that is paradoxical in a way, here in the belly of the beast, when it comes to technology, the creation of our brave, new digital world, you have people who are beginning to send their children to schools because they do not want them to become addicted to technology at an early age. You have people who are learning to unplug and recharge. I say in the book that we are much better at taking care of our smartphones than we are of ourselves. I'm wondering if you think technology and 24-hour connectedness is better or worse for us. Technology has been amazing for us in terms of connecting us with people around the world, giving a voice to people who otherwise would not have a voice, but technology is dangerous when it prevents us from connecting with ourselves and renewing and regenerating. Think on your iphone, you get constant mornings, 20% battery remaining, 16% battery remaining. Immediately we get concerned, we look around at our recharging shrines in our offices and homes . we carry portable rechargers. When it comes to ourselves, we often are not even aware that we have no battery left until we are below zero. What do you think of the fitness tractors, the activity trackers? I think it is great. I love all of these empowerment tools, because it helps us take charge of our own health. Right now, if you look at it, three quarters of our health care costs are because of preventable, chronic, stress-related diseases. If we can actually take charge of our health and get feedback, that is really what i was saying when i spoke at google earlier, that most tech people here love data, and they love experimenting. So what i'm asking people in the book is to experiment with small, microscopic steps, little changes in our lives that will have an incredible effect, like more sweet, like beginning to meditate five minutes a day. Those are two of the steps i recommend in the book. Learning to take our devices out of our bedroom at night and charged them in another room so that we are not tempted to go back and look at our data in the middle of the night. I wonder if all this data can drive us crazy? I know some people who gave up their fitness wristbands because it was too much. Right. That is where we all need to make individual decisions. There is no question that we may be swimming in data and starving for wisdom. Data is not wisdom. I think in order for us to tap into our wisdom we need to have more silence, more pauses in our lives. It is so hard to cause -- pause and reconnect with ourselves. The most dreadful thing we can do is multitask, which now scientists tell us does not really exist. It is task switching, it is stressful, and does not make us more productive. Hear what it arianna huffington has to say about aol and the future of the huffington  This text has been automatically generated. It may not be 100% accurate.
Huffington Post Media Group President Arianna Huffington discusses work and health in the digital age on Bloomberg Television’s “Bloomberg West.” (Source: Bloomberg)