How to Figure Out What You Actually Want in Life
The Mindvalley Podcast with Vishen
Mindvalley
4.5 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 15 July 2020
⏱️ 12 minutes
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Summary
‘Most of us have to choose a career before we can legally buy a beer…’
We live in a world that tells us who to be, what to do, and what the definition of ‘success’ is. Most of us follow the guidance of others blindly, achieving exactly what other people wish for us to experience, not what our souls want us to experience. In this Mindvalley Podcast, Vishen Lakhiani coaches a confused, overwhelmed student in discovering what he actually wants from his life.
Listen out for:
- Why every now and then, ‘life will f*ck you up’.
- Vishen’s Original ‘Success Story’ and how it made him MISERABLE.
- Why following your true calling has nothing to do with others, even those you love.
- The Matrix Philosophy - Will you take the blue pill or the red pill
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| 0:00.0 | So remember the movie The Matrix, when Neo was given the choice between the blue pill or the red pill. |
| 0:07.0 | The blue pill would make him continue living life as it is now. |
| 0:11.0 | The red pill would make him wake up. There is a Red Pill in life. |
| 0:15.2 | I am Mission Laciani, founder of Mind Valley, the School for Human Transformation. |
| 0:20.3 | You're listening to the Mind Valley Podcast where we'll be bringing you the greatest |
| 0:23.8 | teachers and thought leaders on the planet to discuss the world's most powerful ideas and personal |
| 0:28.9 | growth for mind, body, spirit, and worth. |
| 0:33.0 | Welcome to the Mind Valley Podcast. |
| 0:35.0 | Today's show is going to be kind of weird because this is not a traditional podcast episode. |
| 0:39.0 | So first, a backstory. |
| 0:41.0 | What you're about to listen to is a video created by Goldcast. |
| 0:47.0 | Now, Goldcast is that incredible brand that creates some of the most inspirational content on the web. |
| 0:53.7 | They get something like half a billion views |
| 0:57.1 | on Facebook and YouTube every single month. |
| 1:00.0 | That is no joke, half a billion views. |
| 1:02.3 | So what you're about to see here is a sketch that Golkass created. |
| 1:06.2 | Now what I mean by this is that |
| 1:07.9 | Goldkass, rather than put me in front of a camera |
| 1:10.4 | and ask me to share wisdom, |
| 1:12.1 | they ask me to get on stage and create, because this was |
| 1:17.2 | done for video, create a situation where I'm giving a talk in Montreal, and they planted |
| 1:22.0 | someone in the audience. Now someone in the audience. |
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