Vishen Lakhiani introduces Mindvalley's "Be Extraordinary" starter program, which covers consciousness engineering, building resilience (what he calls "becoming unfuckwithable"), and techniques for bending reality. The program ends with a guided exercise called merging.
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So when you get on Mindvalley, things can get a little overwhelming because Mindvalley has over 100 of the world's top programs in every aspect of personal growth. So one of the biggest questions we get is what's the best program to start with? If I'm in love with every aspect of transforming my lives, how then do I begin? Well, as the founder of mindvalley, I would like to share with you my advice on the best program to start with. If there's no particular program that grabs your attention, I created a program called Be Extraordinary. The program Be Extraordinary is designed to be the first program on mindvalley for anyone who is a casual browser. To begin, Be Extraordinary is designed to be a baseline layer of mindvalley. Baseline does not mean basic. What it means is this program gives you a remarkable view of looking at your life and understanding yourself so that every other program starts to make better sense. You can learn about the extraordinary by going to mindvalley home and simply putting in the word extraordinary. The program will pop up. Now, let me give you an idea of what I cover in this program. Firstly, my job as the founder is to curate the best teachers. So in the extraordinary, I bring in a lot of beautiful principles from some of the legendary and pioneering mindvalley teachers who help establish the philosophy of this platform. People like the MBA professor Sri Kumar Rao, or the Reverend Michael Beckwith, or the meditation teacher Emily Fletcher. A lot of their wisdom, a lot of their ideas are immersed in this program. So you don't just learn, learn from my philosophy. You learn from overarching philosophies from multitude of different teachers. Now, the program starts with an introduction to a concept called consciousness engineering. Consciousness engineering is the idea of understanding yourself based on your habits and your models of reality or your beliefs. What makes you human is what you believe and how you implement those beliefs or your habits. When you understand this dynamic and how to use enhance your beliefs as well as enhance your habits, you start growing remarkably fast. The program then goes into the concept of balancing your life between the ideas of being blissful and the ideas of having a vision of the future. You see many people who are very future and goal oriented suffer because they have postponed their happiness towards the goal. Other people are blissful in the present, but they may not have goals which are really pulling them forward. You learn how to bring both pieces together and when you do, magic happens. It almost feels like you're blessed by luck. You're happy in the now, but you're moving rapidly towards bold goals for the future. We then go into a really powerful concept called becoming unfuck withable. Now, to be unfuck withable simply means that you are so secure in who you are that other people's opinion will not rattle you. This is important. As you go through a journey of personal growth, there will be people who try to pull you down. Being unfuckwithable keeps you true to yourself while being compassionate to other people. It is the essence of all great leaders. We then go into two really important, powerful tools. How to enhance intuition and how to bend reality. Intuition is the idea of being able to gain insights, clarity, ideas from beyond just yourself. Bending reality is the idea that to some degree, your future, your reality can be influenced by your thought process. And you learn how to master this. The program ends with a really powerful exercise called merging. And we'll talk about that when we get into the program because you gotta get prepared for that. This is pretty wild. So Be Extraordinary is the baseline program for mindvalley. Check it out and it is a great way to begin your mindvalley adventure. Sam.
