The Code of the Extraordinary Mind: 10 Unconventional Laws to Redefine Your Life

Description: The Code of the Extraordinary Mind by Vishen Lakhiani Everything we know about the world today follows an invisible set of rules--how we work, love, parent, spend our money, and define success. But what if we could remove these outdated ideas and start anew? What would our lives look like if we could redefine the meaning of happiness, purpose, and success?The Code of the Extraordinary Mind blends computational thinking, integral theory, modern spirituality, evolutionary biology, and a little bit of humor to provide a revolutionary framework for re-coding ourselves with new, empowering beliefs and behaviors so we can live extraordinary lives. Throughout, Vishen Lakhiani shares transformative insights from legendary thinkers including Elon Musk, Richard Branson, and Arianna Huffington, among others, helping us to think like the greatest creative minds of our era--questioning, challening, and creating new rules for our lives. Lakhianis 10 laws help us retrain our minds to grow and achieve more than we ever thought was possible, showing us that we do not need to follow convention and can succeed on our own terms no matter where we are starting from.NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER . What if everything we think we know about how the world works-our ideas of love, education, spirituality, work, happiness, and love-are based on Brules (bullsh*t rules) that get passed from generation to generation and are long past their expiration date?This book teaches you to think like some of the greatest non-conformist minds of our era, to question, challenge, hack, and create new rules for YOUR life so you can define success on your own terms.The Code of the Extraordinary Mind is a blueprint of laws to break us free from the shackles of an ordinary life. It makes a case that everything we know about the world is shaped by conditioning and habit. And thus, most people live their lives based on limiting rules and outdated beliefs about pretty much everything-love, work, money, parenting, sex, health, and more-which they inherit and pass on from generation to generation.But what if you could remove these outdated ideas and start anew? What would your life look like if you could forget the rules of the past, and redefine what happiness, purpose, and successmean for you?Not Just a Book, but a MovementBlending computational thinking, integral theory, modern spirituality, evolutionary biology, and humor, personal growth entrepreneur Vishen Lakhiani provides a revolutionary 10-point framework for understanding and enhancing the human self. You will learn aboutbending reality.You will learn how to apply unique models likeconsciousness engineeringto help you learn and grow at speeds like never before.You will learn to make a dent in the universe and discover your quest. This framework is based on Lakhianis personal experiences, the 5 million people hes reached through Mindvalley, and 200 hours of interviews and questions posed to incredible minds, including Elon Musk, Richard Branson, Peter Diamandis, Ken Wilber, Dean Kamen, Arianna Huffington, Michael Beckwith, and other legendary leaders.In a unique fusion of cutting-edge ideas, personal stories, irreverence, and a brilliant teaching style, Lakhiani reveals the 10 powerful laws that form a step-by-step process that you can apply to life to shed years of struggle and elevate yourself to exceptional new heights.The 10 Laws to an Extraordinary LifeThis book challenges conventional ideas of relationships, goal-setting, mindfulness, happiness, and meaning. In a unique fusion of cutting-edge ideas, personal stories, and humorous irreverence, and not to mention, humor andnapkin diagrams,this framework combines computational thinking with personal growth to provide a powerful framework for re-coding yourself-and replacing old, limiting models that hold you back with new, empowering beliefs and behaviors that set you on the path toward an extraordinary life. A life of more happiness and achievement than you might have dared to dream possible.Once you discover the code, you will question your limits and realize that there are none. Step into a new understanding of the world around you and your place in it, and find yourself operating at a new, extraordinary level in every way...happiness, purpose, fulfilment, and love.This Book Is a Living, Breathing Manifesto That Goes Beyond a Traditional PublicationFor those who want more,The Code of the Extraordinary Mindconnects to a full on immersive experience including ways for you to dive into particular chapters to unlock additional videos or training and connect with each other and the author to learn via peer-to-peer learning networks. FORMAT Paperback LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Author Biography Vishen Lakhiani is one of the most influential personalities in personal growth today. A computer engineer and entrepreneur in education technology, he is the founder and CEO of Mindvalley, a 200-person strong company that specializes in learning experience design, creating digital platforms and apps that power online academies in personal growth, mindfulness, wellbeing, productivity, and more. He is also a member of the Transformational Leadership Council and sits on the Innovation Board for XPRIZE Foundation. An internationally recognized speaker on personal growth and transformation, Vishens mission is to revolutionize the global education system by bringing new models of enhancing human potential to people everywhere and building a school for Humanity 2.0. Review "Vishen Lakhiani will make you question everything you thought you knew about your life. From happiness and health to purpose and power, this book is a revolutionary roadmap to become the best, most extraordinary version of yourself—period."—Dave Asprey, bio-Hacker and founder of Bulletproof Exec and Bulletproof Coffee"Entertains while teaching, succinctly explaining how to shed the cultural baggage that has been holding you back, so you can free your life and become the extraordinary person you were meant to be."—JJ Virgin, celebrity nutrition and fitness expert, New York Times bestselling author"Vishen Lakhianis knowledge base and his ability to present it clearly and to actually put it into practice is above anyone I have ever seen in this field. "—Jack Canfield, coauthor of the New York Times bestselling series Chicken Soup for the Soul ®"This book will positively affect the life of anyone who takes the time to read it and implement some or all of the activities into their daily life. I would love to see The Code of the Extraordinary Mind be required reading for high school seniors and first year college/university students. Imagine what our world would look like if all people had access to the knowledge and framework of how to successfully pursue inner happiness, and achieve their full potential in life. Thats what The Code of the Extraordinary Mind helps provide."—Nancy Phillips, speaker and coauthor of bestseller Pushing to the Front"Ive read an early release version...and its one of the BEST personal growth books of our generation. Enjoy his wisdom and share, share, share if you feel inspired."—Carl Harvey, Host of TheBigLife"This book is a game-changer. This is a book that will change many lives because it takes into account everything that affects us as human beings and puts it into a system that anyone can use. Its based on science and spirituality and the experiences of the most successful amongst us. Highly recommended. Love it."—Arturo Nava, Founder of Logra Tu Dream Podcast"Vishen is unstoppable in his commitment to inspire humankind to a new paradigm. He is starting at the right place...the mind. I have no doubt he too will leave a dent in the Universe."—Tom Cronin, Founder of The Stillness Project"You could say the book is transcendent. Lakhianis work provides a blueprint for any individual to find his or her potential without having to run to a cave in Tibet. He is no mere guru of anecdotal experience dressed in New Age lingo. His writing is brutally honest, humble, and intimate. At the same time, the books content is laser-like in its practicality—drawing partially from Lakhiani having 17 jobs in 17 years, from washing dishes to founding (and losing) companies."—Miguel Conner, qSample "Your life does not just happen. You experience life exactly as you have fashioned it. If you are unhappy with where you are, you can deconstruct the parts you dont like and build them up again. Vishen gives you a step-by-step blueprint for doing just that. Your days will be filled with more joy and less stress. And you will accomplish far more than you ever thought possible. This book is a guide to crafting your perfect life. And it is funny to boot."—Srikumar Rao is a TED speaker and author of Are You Ready to Succeed and Happiness at Work"The "Code" is a how-to book that shows you how to examine your mindset, offering options and opportunities to alter your beliefs to lead you to a more fulfilling, meaningful and values-based life. It shows you that you are not stuck being who you are, but that a better version is available if youre willing to open your mind to the possibilities."—Michael F. Kay, Forbes"This book will positively affect the life of anyone who takes the time to read it and implement some or all of the activities into their daily life. I would love to see The Code of the Extraordinary Mind be required reading for high school seniors and first year college/university students. Imagine what our world would look like if all people had access to the knowledge and framework of how to successfully pursue inner happiness, and achieve their full potential in life. Thats what The Code of the Extraordinary Mind helps provide."—Nancy Phillips, The Zela Wela Kids Promotional The blueprint for retraining the mind to achieve whole-life transformation Review Quote From Publishers Weekly This guidebook promises to "hack" conventional thinking by exposing readers to the faulty logic of "brules" (bullsh*t rules) in what Lakhiani calls the culturescape--the mental world of relative truths and ideas that people "should" believe. Lakhiani, founder of Mindvalley, a learning experience company, uses personal anecdotes and those of his successful, famous friends (including Arianna Huffington, Elon Musk, and Ken Wilber) to illustrate how liberating oneself from brules and creating new models of reality can lead to an extraordinary mind, greater happiness, and purpose. Lakhianis "transcendent practices" include gratitude, forgiveness, self-love, positive visualization, and the ability to see failure and difficult times as opportunities for growth. On occasion, anecdotes seem far removed from the average reader. Lakhiani made a promise to himself that if he "ever woke up two weeks in a row dreading going to work, [he] should quit and think of another job"--an optimistic code for living, but not one that everyone can live by. Still, the authors three most important questions--"What experiences do you want to have in this lifetime? How do you want to grow? How do you want to contribute?"--can be of benefit to anyone. Reviews "Vishen Lakhiani will make you question everything you thought you knew about your life. From happiness and health to purpose and power, this book is a revolutionary roadmap to become the best, most extraordinary version of yourself--period." ~ Dave Asprey, Bio-Hacker and founder of Bulletproof Exec and Bulletproof Coffee "Entertains while teaching, succinctly explaining how to shed the cultural baggage that has been holding you back, so you can free your life and become the extraordinary person you were meant to be." ~ JJ Virgin, Celebrity Nutrition and Fitness Expert, New York Times bestselling author "Vishen Lakhianis knowledge base and his ability to present it clearly and to actually put it into practice is above anyone I have ever seen in this field. " ~ Jack Canfield, coauthor of the New York Times bestselling series Chicken Soup for the Soul Promotional "Headline" The blueprint for retraining the mind to achieve whole-life transformation Excerpt from Book CHAPTER 1 TRANSCEND THE CULTURESCAPE Where We Learn to Question the Rules of the World We Live In When you grow up, you tend to get told that the world is the way it is and your life is just to live your life inside the world. Try not to bash into the walls too much. Try to have a nice family life, have fun, save money. Thats a very limited life. Life can be much broader once you discover one simple fact. That is--everything around you that you call life was made up by people no smarter than you. And you can change it. You can influence it. . . . Once you learn that, youll never be the same again. --STEVE JOBS The gleaming waters of Lake Washington were stunning from where I stood on the grassy lawn of a grand home. Conversation hummed around me. Glasses clinked as wine was poured. The sweet, spicy aroma of barbecue filled the air. Just behind me stood Bill Gates, the owner of that home. One of the wealthiest men in the world and the legendary founder of tech giant Microsoft, he was chatting with his other young guests. I was twenty-two and a few weeks into my job as a Microsoft intern, celebrating at the annual barbecue at Bill Gatess home to welcome Microsofts newbies. Back then, Microsoft was the company to get into, equivalent to working for Apple or Google today. And I was in! There was so much excitement in the air--we were like young Hogwarts students meeting Dumbledore for the first time. Id labored toward this goal for years, first working my butt off to get good grades in high school so I could gain admission to one of the best engineering colleges in the world--the University of Michigan, where I studied electrical engineering and computer science. In Malaysia, where Id lived until the age of nineteen, as in other parts of Asia, it was the norm for families and educators to promote the idea of growing up to become an engineer, lawyer, or doctor. As a kid, I remember being told that if you were smart, thats what you did. It was just kind of how that world operated. Yet the sad truth was that I dreaded my computer engineering classes in college. What I really wanted to be was a photographer or a stage actor. Photography and performing arts were the only classes where I got As. But those were not acceptable careers at all, according to the rules. So, I gave them up for programming. After all, I had to be practical and realistic. Get good grades. Get a good job. Work the nine-to-five. Save my money for a healthy retirement. Do it right and I would be a "success." And I was beginning to succeed. It felt amazing to be honored with this opportunity to be in Bills home and to be working at this company, then in its heyday. My professors were elated for me. My parents were thrilled. It made the hours of study and my parents sacrifices worthwhile. Id done everything that had been asked of me. Now it was time to reap the rewards. I had arrived. And I was standing in the home of Bill frickin Gates with my career laid out before me. But deep inside, I knew I had a problem. On that fateful day in the summer of 1998, I had simultaneously accomplished two things: first, the completion of a long, many-year journey, and second, the painful realization that I had been walking in the wrong direction the entire damn time. See, I genuinely disliked my job. Id sit in my private office at Microsoft headquarters, staring at my triple-screen monitor, and count the minutes until I could escape. I disliked the work so much that, even though Bill Gates was standing just a few feet away from me surrounded by my colleagues, I felt too ashamed to shake his hand. I felt I shouldnt be there. So a few weeks later, I quit. Okay, I got fired. I was too chicken to take charge and quit. To study at a top computer engineering college, get the coveted interview, and then snag the even-more- coveted job at the company my fellow students were dying to get into--to get that far and then quit was going to disappoint a lot of people. So I did the next best thing a spineless twenty-two-year-old could do. I deliberately got myself fired. I simply goofed off and got caught playing video games at my desk way too many times during office hours until my manager was forced to fire me. So, as they say, that happened. I went back to college and limped to the finish line. I had no idea what I was going do after graduation and felt almost stupid for blowing my huge opportunity with Microsoft. As it turns out, getting out of there was the smart thing to do. I wasnt just quitting a job (and a career path)--I had also decided to quit following the socially approved rules for how life is supposed to work. LETS ADMIT ITS NOT WORKING When I went my own way rather than choosing the path of the practical and realistic job, it wasnt because I thought there was anything wrong with being a computer engineer. But I did--and still do--think theres something wrong with the idea that we should work at something we have no passion for, just because its the norm or the rule in the world were born into. Yet many of us do just that. According to a Gallup study surveying more than 150,000 Americans, 70 percent of respondents said they were "disengaged" from their jobs. Given the amount of time we spend at work, a job we have no passion for puts us at risk of living a life we have no passion for. But its not just our ideas about careers that are faulty. Consider these additional stats: 40 to 50 percent of US marriages end in divorce. A Harris poll showed that only 33 percent of Americans polled claimed to be "very happy." According to CNBC, "a new report by the Pew Charitable Trusts, which examined debt through the generations . . . found that eight in ten Americans are in debt in some fashion, most often because of a mortgage." According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, more than one- third of adults in the United States are now obese. Thus, our careers, our love lives, our happiness, our financial standing, and our health are all in conditions that are pretty inadequate. How did we get here, and how do we escape? There are many reasons why these things happen. But I submit to you that one big reason is the tyranny of rules--rules that suggest we "should" do life in a particular way because everyone else seems to be doing it, too: I should take this job. I should date/marry this type of person. I should go to this college. I should major in this subject. I should live in this city. This is how I should look. This is how I should feel. Dont get me wrong. People sometimes have to take jobs they dislike in order to make ends meet. They have to live in places they wouldnt choose because its all they can afford at the time or because they have family responsibilities. But theres a big difference between bending to lifes necessities and blindly accepting that you must live your life according to preconceived rules. One of the keys to being extraordinary is knowing what rules to follow and what rules to break. Outside the rules of physics and the rules of law, all other rules are open to questioning. To understand this, we first have to understand why these rules exist in the first place. THE DAWN OF THE RULES Who made up the rules of the modern world anyway? To try to answer that question, lets take a quick leap into the beginnings of human history. In his fascinating book Sapiens, historian Yuval Noah Harari, PhD, puts forward the idea that at a certain point in history, there could have been as many as six different types of humans living on the planet at once. There was Homo sapiens, which is what we all are. But there were also Homo neanderthalensis, Homo soloensis, and Homo erectus, among others. But over time, all of the nonsapiens, such as the Neanderthals, died out, leaving Homo sapiens as our prehistoric grandmother or grandfather. What helped sapiens survive? The reason for our ultimate dominance, according to Dr. Harari, was our use of language--and specifically, its complexity in comparison to others. Primatologists who have studied monkeys have found that monkeys can alert others in their group to danger, along the lines of, say, "Look out-- tiger!" But our sapiens forebears had very different brains. In contrast, sapiens could say, in effect, "Hey, this morning I saw a tiger by the river, so lets chill here until the tiger leaves to hunt, and then we can go there to eat, okay?" Our sapiens ancestors had the ability to communicate complex information important to survival through the effective use of language. Language allowed us to organize groups of people--to share news of dangers or opportunities. To create and teach practices and habits: to communicate not just where the berries were on the riverbank but also how to pick, cook, and preserve them, what to do if someone ate too many, and even who should have the first and biggest helping. Language allowed us to preserve knowledge by passing it from person to person, parent to child, generation to generation. Its difficult to overstate the power successive generations gained from literally not having to reinvent the wheel. Language gave rise to beautiful complexity on every level. But the biggest advantage of language is that it allowed us to create a whole new world within our heads. We could use it to create th Details ISBN0593135822 Author Vishen Lakhiani Pages 288 ISBN-10 0593135822 ISBN-13 9780593135822 Format Paperback Subtitle 10 Unconventional Laws to Redefine Your Life and Succeed on Your Own Terms Country of Publication United States DEWEY 158.1 Short Title The Code of the Extraordinary Mind Language English UK Release Date 2019-12-31 Imprint Rodale Books Place of Publication Emmaus Publisher Potter/Ten Speed/Harmony/Rodale Year 2019 Publication Date 2019-12-31 AU Release Date 2019-12-31 NZ Release Date 2019-12-31 US Release Date 2019-12-31 Illustrator Quentin Blake Birth 1974 Affiliation Angel Chernoff Position Audiobook Narrator Qualifications MA Replaces 9781623367589 Audience General We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. 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