Vishen LakhianiFounder of Mindvalley | NYT Bestselling Author | Transforming Lives Globally

Are you using the athlete principle?

21 Jun 2024 · 1 min

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A short YouTube excerpt by Vishen Lakhiani advocating the "athlete principle": treat your brain and body with the same care an athlete gives their body. He recommends daily practices—meditation (~20 minutes), brief exercise (~15 minutes), yoga—and claims roughly 30 minutes of such practices can yield about one to two extra hours of productivity the same day.

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20 minutes a day.

15 minutes a day.

About one to two hours of extra productivity the same day (from ~30 minutes of practices).

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Treat your body and brain with respect. You got to think of yourself as an athlete. No matter what you do, you are not just that which you do. You are a mind powered by a brain and a physical body. You do not want to in any way sacrifice your physical body or your mental prowess. You always want to make sure that your physical body and your brain are operating at peak potential. Much the same way an athlete takes such good care of their body. You need to treat your body and brain with respect. And this means not just avoiding stuff that's bad for you, but doing stuff that keeps your body and brain sharp. Meditation, having a schedule for exercise, for yoga, for practices that put you in a great state will all make you more productive. Meditation takes 20 minutes a day. Exercise can be done in 15 minutes a day. This may take 30 minutes or so a day, but these 30 minutes will probably add one to two hours that same day in extra productivity.