Arianna Huffington is a Greek American author and commentator, who is best known for creating The Huffington Post. Huffington started her journey in a political and journalistic career. She is a creative and best selling author of The Female Woman (1973). She was later pursued by Maria Callas and artist Pablo Picasso. This paper will go in depth and identify Huffington’s creative task, strategies, and breakthrough in her career. A comparison between Arianna Huffington and profiled mastery (Greene, 2012) master, Yoky Matsuoka, will show how deeply Huffington’s creative journey led to her mastery. The Creative Active Phase Creative Task Robert Greene (2012) mentions that the creative task is having an enslaving element. It’s connected to …show more content…
Their project is deeply connected to something personal and primal, and seems very much alive to them” (Greene, 2012). This is described by Greene (2012), as the creative breakthrough. This journey for Huffington begins in 1980 when she moves to New York due to personal issues that were not specified. The following year we saw the release of her biographical book, ‘Maria Callas - The Woman Behind the Legend’. Huffington states for Slate, “Fearlessness is not the absence of fear; it is the mastery of fear” (2006). Through 1978 to 2008 we saw a lot of action from Huffington. In 1978, she came out with her second book, ‘After Reason’ that failed to get the public's attention with its release. After this she began working for the British editions of ‘Vogue’ and ‘Cosmopolitan’ along with many …show more content…
She felt different in her interest compared to her others around her. He continues to say that as she got older, her interest only became wider. If we look back at Huffington, we see somewhat of the same pattern, with very broad interest in many subjects. Matsuoka was deeply connected to mathematics and physics, however she also had a strong attraction to biology and physiology. Huffington, through the early 1990s and early 2000s, became a reliable supporter of the conservative, to which we see her fame really pick up from here. In 2000, she set against the NATO intervention during Yugoslav wars. “In order to learn a subject or skill, particularly one that is complex, we must immerse ourselves in many details, techniques, and procedures that are standard for solving problems” (Greene,