The Code of the Extraordinary Mind: 10 Unconventional Laws to Redefine Your Life and Succeed On Your Own Terms Hardcover – May 10, 2016

I'm glad I watched the video on mindvalley but the book helped me breathe in everything. I know my growth has a bit to go but I am grateful for this book, mindvalley and Vishen. My growth has changed my life and I'm so excited for what's coming

I watched Vishen Lakihiani's free trainings on the MindValley Academy website first before deciding to buy the book. I devoured all his free courses and YouTube talks like candy. I loved the way he lays things out plainly and he's so engaging. He speaks and writes very conversationally in an easy-to-understand way, which makes watching him - or reading his book - very enjoyable as well as inspiring. You might have to read it in bursts - and sit and think on it - to really absorb it well. He also situates his online trainings in this manner so you don't get overwhelmed. He seems like an amazing person who has been obsessed with learning wisdom from the Greats. And he seems passionate about passing along this knowledge. The book is great and will open your eyes to a lot of the BS ingrained into you without your consent. Like he wrote, "You will either love [this book], or hate it." If you are a really staunch [insert label], then it is going to challenge a lot of your long-held beliefs - and that's probably a good thing.Now as a side note, while I respect him - he IS a business man too, and "if you have something good, never give it away for free," right? So some classes on his companion website are FREE - and they are great - but the truly "good" ones are hundreds, if not thousands of dollars. Can't fault him for making money and I belief what he is selling IS a quality "product", so yeah, "charge what you're worth." But, as a currently below-average income-earner and mom, this gives me sticker shock - but then again, "sometimes you have to spend money to make money." I would like to take these additional classes eventually because I think they will contain a lot of useful information, I just wish they weren't SO expensive - but I'll just have to save up for them. Sorry for the tangent.The book is really amazing for opening your mind up to your beliefs and the world around you - and he really is an inspirational guy. You can watch a bunch of his talks on YouTube and check out his free courses on his website, too. Even the free stuff will rock your world and maybe even change it, like it's changed mine. My husband and I have both started practicing his techniques and have seen improvement in our thinking and positivity and mindfulness already. We are confident the improvements will only grow the more we practice. This is a lifestyle, not a "fad diet," type of thing. If you are really honest with yourself and you really commit, you'll hack your life.

Your life did 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 don’t like and build them up again.That is a statement on my website. And now there is book that shows you exactly how to craft a life that is ideal for you.Vishen Lakhiani is a computer engineer – or was one! – so he thinks in terms of ‘hacking’ processes to get more done and better and faster. And he asked an intriguing question – can you ‘hack’ your life?“Yes, you can,” he concluded and he built Mind Valley into the leader in the personal growth industry and one of the coolest offices in the country in an Inc. magazine reader’s poll in 2012. And in the process he custom built his life.In The Code of the Extraordinary Mind he shows you how you can do the same.There are lessons in his life-story. He joined Microsoft in the days when it was the tech company to join and was spinning out millionaires like cotton candy. It was most miserable period of his working life.The problem was that he wasn’t doing what turned him on. He was following the programming of South Asian parents who held that the way to get ahead is to become an engineer – doctor is also acceptable! – and get a job with a ‘good’ company and stick with it for a few decades.That brings us to Lesson 1: There is a ‘culturescape’ in which you live that dictates how you think about life, marriage, job, career and huge chunks of what constitutes your life. In that culturescape are many bulls**t rules – abbreviated to ‘brules’ – that both make your life miserable and hold you back.Accidents of birth dictate whether you are Christian or Jewish or Muslim and the family, culture and educational system that affect you. This is your culturescape and it has its rules – don’t marry someone outside your community, don’t eat certain foods, don’t mix with certain people etc. Many of these rules actually help you live a sane, fulfilled existence.But many are arbitrary and propagated unthinkingly. And these can be a source of great pain to you and a bane on society. The first part of the book defines culturescapes and brules and how to identify the unhelpful ones and eradicate them from your life.Then we get to the really interesting part – how do you re-engineer your life so that you are happier and more productive?Lakhiani posits that you can ‘bend reality’ by which he means that you can have such a startlingly different view of what happens to you that life is never the same again and outsiders walk away wondering if you are quite right in the head.The only way to explain this is by an example. In his early days he hit a brick wall. Mind Valley was stagnant. Sales would not rise and the hours were punishing. His life was on hold. He had young children he barely saw. Bank savings dwindled and layoffs loomed. He acted confident in front of his staff but deep inside felt like a fraud and a failure.That’s when he got a ‘bending reality’ insight. Stop postponing your happiness. Your thoughts and beliefs do create your reality, but only when your present state is joyful.He thought he didn’t have much to be happy about but came up with a process – described in the book – that revealed how much was super in his life.Sales trebled in months, payroll exploded and his company was recognized in an Inc. reader’s poll.There are tons of powerful insights. Such as why conventional goal setting is a pathway to despair.Most persons set ‘means goals’ such as becoming department head, or earning a particular amount, or reaching a career objective. And then spend inordinate time and effort to achieve those goals. All of these are means to an end.A better way is to set ‘end goals’. These are joyous in and of themselves.Becoming CEO is a means goal. I will learn something that excites me each week is an end goal.When you craft well thought out end goals and live your life to reach them, you come alive. And your life is transformed.The key lesson you learn is that you do not have to seek validation from outside by attaining normal goals. Your validation comes from inside through self-fueled goals and actions driven by deep inner love.The wonderful paradox is that when you don’t really care about external validation, you frequently get it in spades.

At first it starts slow and it picks up Don’t be frustrated with the first 100 pages.

Hay técnicas nuevas que no conocía, el método de visualización que presenta Vishen me parece muy práctico lo he empezado a usar, también la meditación en 6 fases. Ciertamente es un libro fácil de leer por lo interesante. Hay mucho que poner en práctica de este libro.

Um livro que quebra paradigmas e abre a mente de quem está disposto a ser uma pessoa cada vez melhor e mais consciente. Óbvio que ele aproveita para vender os cursos, que também são excelentes e transformadores.

Very knowledge book, highly recommend. Quick delivery and and good quality print. Remember knowledge is just a knowledge, applying the knowledge is the power that will help you on your life journey ✨️ enjoy

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Vishen has a good heart and soul, he is a beautiful person, you can feel this when reading his book. I bought it on audible as well and listening to his voice and ideas is so inspirational. A must read (and hear) for finding a better you.