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The Mindvalley Podcast

Vishen Lakhiani On How Work Can Be Healing

The Mindvalley Podcast

Mindvalley

Education, Health & Fitness, Self-improvement, Mental Health

4.51.5K Ratings

🗓️ 25 June 2019

⏱️ 7 minutes

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Summary

What if work fueled you rather than extracted from you? In Part 2 (of 4) of Vishen Lakhiani's series on workplace culture, the founder of Mindvalley reveals the 5 quick things that CEOs and supervisors need to do that will radically change the way employees show up (and, if you're on the other end, make 'work' the most fun and most fueling part of your day!) You'll learn all this (and more!) in only 5 minutes. Tune in now.

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Transcript

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0:00.0

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

0:05.2

You're listening to the Mind Valley podcast where we'll be bringing you the greatest teachers and

0:09.2

thought leaders on the planet to discuss the world's most powerful ideas and personal growth for mind, body, spirit and work.

0:17.0

Human society is built on a big line. I call this the lie of work, the idea that we have to spend the bulk of our adult lives trading our well-being, trading our passions, to earn a paycheck to deliver what we call work.

0:36.0

And it's why if you look at study after study close to 85% of human beings are disengaged at work.

0:43.0

Work is 70% of our waking lives.

0:46.0

Something has got to be broken.

0:48.0

And so I, along with my team, are looking at ways to rethink how work works and the biggest aha is this

0:59.1

what if work is not about extracting from you not about making you more tired or making you age

1:05.0

faster or giving you gray hairs or filling you with stress or making you want to go home and

1:09.2

take a nap.

1:10.2

But what if work is actually healing?

1:11.7

What if the very act of going to your workplace

1:15.2

means that you start losing weight?

1:17.6

You start looking and dressing better.

1:19.7

You start being more lit up.

1:21.6

You develop meaningful connections with the people around you.

1:24.6

You become a better individual day after day after day.

1:28.1

And when you go home and you see your kids or your friends, you are magnified as an individual, you are more positive, you are more open, you are filled with energy.

1:38.0

What if work fueled you and gave you rocket fuel rather than extracted for you. We call these ideas work as healing

1:46.2

and it's possible and more and more companies are starting to bring this into their workforce.

1:52.1

But I believe that there are five quick things if CEOs

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