I am Vichin Laciani, founder of Mind Valley, the School for Human Transformation.

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Wanting to do something with my life, I had this unending ease that I could do more, I could be more, I just didn't know

how and I felt trapped, but I didn't know what I was trapped by.

And my own mother, who's always been my biggest cheerleader, who all but kicked me out of the house when I was

panicking and didn't want to leave the state for college. It was actually the only

person in my graduating class to leave the state. It wasn't something that

people from Tacoma, Washington did. You stayed, you went to a state school. My mom still lives less than three miles from the house that she grew up in.

So this is not a place where people go off and explore.

But my mom always felt like if I didn't do that,

that I would have a lot of the same regrets that she had,

that I wouldn't see the world, that I wouldn't discover myself,

and that one day I would look back and say,

what if I had only tried.

Now what she didn't tell me at the time, but she has since confessed,

is that she just assumed I was going to fail.

Now my mom is hilarious.

She's not Jewish, but you would think she is,

because her whole life since kicking me out of the net.

She's been desperately trying to claw me back.

And so one day I finally asked, I said, what is with that?

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