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

Are Your Health Goals Limited by Genetics?

18 May 2024 · 2 min

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A short YouTube talk by Vishen Lakhiani arguing that genetics (the body's structure) explain only a minority of outcomes — he verbalizes "the structure only accounts for 20% of the things" — and that skills, choices, and practices determine health results. Uses a Mona Lisa painting analogy to illustrate the point, shows transformed people as examples, and closes with a promotion for a free, three-day Health and Body Summit (physical, mental, spiritual health) with a click-to-join CTA.

Questions this video answers

20% (spoken: "the structure only accounts for 20% of the things").

May 18, 2024.

Three days.

Yes — the speaker says "It's for free."

Chapters

I hear a lot of people saying that they're not at their best state because they don't have good genetics. So let's play with that idea. Imagine that I am painting the Mona Lisa. What is the genetics for the art? I have the structure, I have the canvas, I have the brush, I have even the same colors that Leonardo da Vinci used. But if I only rely on genetics, the outcome is something like this. This because the structure only accounts for 20% of the things. What really matters is the skills that I have, the choices that I make and the practice that I have that are very different from Leonardo da Vinci, let's be honest. And the same goes for your body. The structure that you have doesn't determine the outcome. It's the choices that you make, the skills that you learn and the practices that you have. Do never forget that the best state is at your reach. Just look at these people over here. These are all people that had the so called bad genetics. But they made the right choices, learned the right things and had the right practices. And this transformation is available for you. Remember, that's about the choices that you make. And if you want to learn more about what choices to make, what practices to practice and what skills to have, I got you cover how. Bring the best experts in the world for physical, mental and spiritual health for three days in the Health and Body Summit. If you want to learn those things and no longer let your genetics determine your outcome, then join me and you know what's best. It's for free. You can just click on the button below and join me for the Health and Body Summit.