The Upgrade You Need to Change Your Life | Vishen Lakhiani

So let me ask you a question. Are any of you guys still using Instagram's original 2011 app? I bet hardly anyone. Most of you have upgraded your apps by now. Now, another question. Are any of you still using a 2012 iPhone? Maybe a couple of people. But most of you have upgraded your iPhone in the last eight years or so, or your Samsung Galaxy or whatever phone you use. We constantly upgrade our apps, and we constantly upgrade our phones. Why? Because it gets better and better and better every year with hardware and software. But how many of us apply that same practice to upgrading ourselves? To upgrade yourself is to transform. And there is a formula for transformation. The formula goes like this. Transformation equals cognition. Cognition means what you're learning plus belief upgrades. In other words, you are changing your models of reality, of how the world performs plus daily habits or your systems for living, how you exercise, how you work, how you play. Most people forget the last two. They read a book and they are improving their cognition. They are learning something new. But it doesn't really create a transformation. To transform, you have to bring in a new belief and you have to bring in a new habit or a new practice. Now, how does that relate to your iPhone and Instagram? When you think about beliefs, beliefs are like the hardware you see. If you want a better phone, you upgrade. You get a phone with a better camera, or you get a phone with higher resolution. That's a hardware upgrade. Our beliefs are like our hardware. Our beliefs determine how we show up and how we function in the world. And you can upgrade your beliefs, the beliefs that you took on as a child. A less wiser version of you can be replaced by more updated beliefs as you study the mindsets of incredible men and women around the world who are doing things that you aspire to do. You can upgrade your beliefs, but the second thing you want to do is upgrade your systems for living your daily habits. Upgrading your daily habits are like upgrading Instagram. It's like upgrading the apps on your phone. If your beliefs are like hardware, your habits are like your apps. Just like we upgrade our apps, we can upgrade our habits. We can upgrade the way we eat, the way we parent, the way we exercise by taking on new ideas, new methods, new philosophies. When you put this all together, what you have is an equation for radical human transformation. You have an equation for growing so fast that your friends who haven't kept in touch for a month have to get to know you all over again. But this is the science of human transformation. Now, I developed a model for this that I call consciousness engineering. And consciousness engineering is a way of studying incredible minds out there and not just cognitively understanding what they say, but understanding their beliefs, understanding their daily habits, and then infusing that into your life. Knowing how to apply and emulate healthy beliefs of a leading thinker, the healthy habits of a leading thinker and upgrade yourself instantly. Consciousness engineering was a key chapter in my first New York Times best selling book, the Code of the Extraordinary Mind. And on this philosophy of consciousness engineering, I've created a new masterclass. If you find these ideas interesting, I invite you to join this masterclass. What you're going to learn here is the science of consciousness engineering and how every time you read a book, every time you study with a mentor, every time you read an autobiography or you see a documentary of some remarkable person whom you respect and whom you aspire to be like, you can rapidly take on their beliefs, rapidly take on their habits, and upgrade yourself as easily as you upgrade the app on your smartphone. So join me in this masterclass. Can't wait to share with you the principles of consciousness engineering. This is one of the things that has allowed me to grow in my life and I cannot wait to teach this methodology to you.