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

focus on solving problems that truly matter, money becomes the byproduct.

21 Sept 2025 · 0 min

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A short YouTube monologue (by Vishen Lakhiani) arguing that making money is a byproduct of focusing on and enjoying meaningful work. The speaker uses a provocative analogy—comparing pursuing money to seeking orgasm—to emphasize that obsession with the process and finding purpose in life (not searching for a single grand purpose) leads to success.

Making money is like having an orgasm. That means when you focus on it, you're never going to get it. The only way to get orgasm is to actually just enjoy the process of doing it. Right? And that is how making money works, is that you go out and do things that you truly care about. And it's not about finding the purpose of life, it's finding the purpose in life, finding the meaning in life. That means enjoying the things that you're doing and being totally obsessed about it.