Synopses & Reviews
What are you afraid of? Being assertive? Looking fat? Getting older? Going broke? Are you afraid for your children? Afraid of losing love? Afraid of leading the charge? Whatever your fear, women everywhere confront the same fears every day.
Enter Arianna Huffington, bestselling author, Internet entrepreneur, journalist, mother, and one of the most influential people in America. She believes that conquering fear is crucial to living a full life and to making a difference in the world, and in this powerful and daring manifesto, she inspires us to take on the task.
Huffington is fearless but not by nature; she's had to learn to overcome her fears and relies on these hard-won lessons every day. In her own life and in the lives of women she admires, Huffington has again and again encountered moments of extraordinary strength, courage, and resilience. It is from these moments that On Becoming Fearless is built. Huffington shows us how to be bold from the inside out from feeling comfortable in our own skin to getting what we want in love and at work to changing the world.
In order to live a happy, fulfilling life, we need to reach the point where our fears do not stop us from daring to think new thoughts, take risks, fail, start again, and, ultimately, succeed. Provocative, empowering, and enriched by the voices of remarkable women everywhere, On Becoming Fearless is the road map to a life without fear a life of truth, love, and freedom.
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"[S]urprisingly refreshing....[A] wide-ranging look at the challenges women face in family, faith, careers, and personal fulfillment to explore the rewards of facing up to fears and working steadily toward fearlessness." Booklist
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"On Being Fearless makes you think. The subjects it addresses don't really go together....But this book may encourage readers to prioritize their fears to do something, perhaps, about what they can change and to accept being scared to death about the rest." Carolyn See, The Washington Post Book World
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"Huffington's very current reading, particularly in such subjects as motherhood, working women and female brain chemistry, adds depth to an otherwise superficial book." Los Angeles Times
Synopsis
Huffington, a woman who embodies fearlessness, pens a manifesto for women on how to overcome fears at work, in parenting, in love, in aging, and more in order to achieve their dreams.
The Huffington Post has a new feature section devoted to promoting fearlessness in all aspects of our lives. Using as its springboard the themes in her new book, the section contains blog posts, news stories, and special features on relationships, work, parenting, health, sex, food, entertainment...in other words, life.
Synopsis
Observing that her own teenage daughters were beginning to experience some of the same fears that had once burdened her--how attractive am I? do people like me? do I dare speak up?--Arianna Huffington began to examine the ways in which fear affects all our lives. In stories drawn from her own experiences and from the lives of other women, she points toward the moments of extraordinary strength, courage, and resilience that result from confronting and overcoming fear. And she outlines the steps anyone can take to conquer fear. Her book shows us how to become bold from the inside out--from feeling comfortable in our own skin to getting what we want in love and at work to changing the world.
About the Author
Arianna Huffington was raised in Greece by her fearless mother and graduated from Cambridge University, where she headed its famed debating society. She has written eleven books, appeared on countless television and radio shows, and launched the
Huffington Post, an enormously successful online source of news and opinion.
While taking on a variety of roles, Huffington has embodied the fearless woman throughout her life. In 2006, she was named by Time magazine as one of the most influential people in the world. She has written this book for her two daughters in the hope that they will lead fearless lives.