{"id":2042,"date":"2026-08-11T07:37:14","date_gmt":"2026-08-11T07:37:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vaultinsider.top\/?p=2042"},"modified":"2026-08-11T07:37:14","modified_gmt":"2026-08-11T07:37:14","slug":"arianna-huffington-says-ceos-are-trapped-in-jobs-they-no-longer-love-success-can-be-a-trap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vaultinsider.top\/?p=2042","title":{"rendered":"Arianna Huffington says CEOs are trapped in jobs they no longer love: \u2018Success can be a trap\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/fortune.com\/img-assets\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/GettyImages-2272612085-e1786377040745.jpg?w=2048\" \/><\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s every worker\u2019s dream: You work hard and climb the ladder until eventually you\u2019re rewarded with an executive title and cushy salary to go with it. But according to Huffington Post founder Arianna Huffington, the reality isn\u2019t quite as glamorous as it looks\u2014and plenty of CEOs, she says, are desperate to quit, despite seemingly having it all.\u00a0<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cSuccess can be a trap,\u201d Huffington told <em>Fortune<\/em>, adding that once you\u2019ve dedicated years of your life to honing your craft and gaining recognition, it can feel impossible to leave it all behind and start something new. Even if you\u2019re miserable where you\u2019re at.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cIt\u2019s a trap because a lot of very successful people have a hard time leaving,\u201d she explained. \u201cI have CEO friends who\u2019ve stopped loving their jobs, but they\u2019re afraid to leave.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And it\u2019s not just the huge mortgages, private school fees and luxury first-class vacations they\u2019ve become accustomed to bankrolling with their multi-million dollar pay packages keeping them stuck.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThe financial trap is much easier to see, while the identity trap is less tangible but no less real,\u201d Huffington added. \u201cThey\u2019re so identified with the CEO role, or the anchor of an evening show, or whatever big job comes with a lot of recognition\u2014it\u2019s become their identity.\u201d<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Huffington could have stayed at the top of Huffington Post. She walked away instead.<\/h2>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Huffington spent a grueling 11 years building Huffington Post into one of the biggest names in digital media, growing its newsroom to more than 850 journalists and becoming the first digital-native outlet to win a Pulitzer Prize. She graced the covers of magazines, made <em>Time\u2019s<\/em> list of most influential people and was a regular at the likes of Davos.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">By any measure, she\u2019d made it. Walking away from that to start over would have made no sense to many people\u2014and yet that\u2019s exactly what she did in 2016 to found her new wellness venture, Thrive Global.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThere are no guarantees anytime you start a new company,\u201d the 76-year-old multimillionaire said. \u201cBut I was ready to throw myself into health, and if I hadn\u2019t done it, I would have kind of betrayed myself.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">At the time, when she was weighing up whether to hold onto what she had built or walk away, Huffington said that her mother\u2019s voice was in her head.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cShe brought me up not to be afraid of failing,\u201d she said, adding that women in particular are hit harder by perfectionism and therefore more likely to remain stuck and not take that leap of faith in case it doesn\u2019t work out. \u201cMy mother used to say failure is not the opposite of success, it\u2019s a stepping stone to success.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It\u2019s why, for Huffington, how a role makes you feel matters more than what it looks like from the outside.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cI\u2019ve always believed that there is no job that defines us, no success that defines us,\u201d she added. \u201cIf we are able to follow our heart, it means we can keep growing and evolving.\u201d<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">From Airbnb\u2019s CEO to Wingstop\u2019s cofounder: These leaders say success felt hollow<\/h2>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Huffington\u2019s far from the first person to admit that reaching the top can leave you feeling empty rather than fulfilled. After cofounding Wingstop UK and selling a majority stake for \u00a3400 million (around $540 million), Tom Grogan should have been ecstatic. Instead, he felt hollow.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cFor seven years, your whole mind is occupied on making a success of this business,\u201d Grogan told <em>Fortune<\/em><em>.\u00a0 <\/em>\u201cIt\u2019s all you think about. And then when you get there, it\u2019s just a bit surreal. It\u2019s like, Okay, it\u2019s done now. <em>Now what?<\/em> And money doesn\u2019t necessarily fill that void either.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Growing up, Brian Chesky, the cofounder and CEO of Airbnb, said he \u201cdesperately wanted to be successful\u201d because he thought it would bring him adoration. Plus, having social worker parents who were by no standards rich, he also thought a large sum of money could \u201csolve every problem.\u201d But actually, he said the company\u2019s blockbuster 2020 IPO\u2014despite making him a billionaire\u2014was \u201cone of the saddest periods\u201d of his life.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Loom cofounder Vinay Hiremath hit a similar wall after selling his company to Atlassian for $975 million. In a blog post candidly titled \u201cI am rich and have no idea what to do with my life,\u201d he described the identity collapse that followed the company\u2019s rapid rise and eventual sale. \u201cI lost myself,\u201d he wrote, adding that the windfall left him with \u201cinfinite freedom\u201d but no idea what to do with it.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It\u2019s why, despite having no current plans to step down, TIAA\u2019s CEO Thasunda Duckett is already thinking about who she is outside of her job.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cI rent my title. I own my character,\u201d Duckett recently told <em>Fortune<\/em>, noting that a job title is never permanent\u2014and therefore shouldn\u2019t be mistaken for who you actually are. \u201cI own my intellectual curiosity. I own my grit. I own my perseverance. I own my compass.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>#Arianna #Huffington #CEOs #trapped #jobs #longer #love #Success #trap<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s every worker\u2019s dream: You&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2043,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[1982,4029,4027,2398,1404,2687,559,1031,3986,4028,4030,537,640,1416,2271,2786,642,1981,1738,3656,4031,2063,81,2680,3644],"class_list":["post-2042","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-finance-news","tag-and-wellness","tag-arianna","tag-arianna-huffington","tag-career","tag-career-advice","tag-careers","tag-ceos","tag-fitness","tag-happiness","tag-happiness-at-work","tag-huffington","tag-jobs","tag-lifestyle","tag-longer","tag-love","tag-mental-health","tag-millionaires","tag-personal-health","tag-success","tag-trap","tag-trapped","tag-view-from-the-c-suite","tag-wealth","tag-well-being","tag-workplace-wellness"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.1 - 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