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CREATE A VISION FOR YOUR FUTURE
- Means Goals—goals that are a means to an end—and usually about meeting or conforming to society’s Brules.
- End Goals- when follow our heart, the goals that excite and inspire us, and put our ultimate target in our sights.
Pursuing end goals accelerates our momentum toward the extraordinary.
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BE UNFUCKWITHABLE
It involves understanding two particular models of reality:
- SELF-FUELED GOALS: These are end goals that you have absolute control over. No one can take them away from you.
- YOU ARE ENOUGH: You need not to prove anything to anyone.
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Levels of Extraordinary Life
- LEVEL-1: Living in the Culturescape: How You Were Shaped by the World Around You.
- LEVEL-2: The Awakening: The Power to Choose Your Version of the World.
- LEVEL-3: Recoding Yourself: Transforming Your Inner World.
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Extraordinary minds create a vision for their future that is decidedly their own and free from expectations of the culturescape. Their vision is focused on end goals that strike a direct chord with their happiness.
VISHEN LAKHIANI
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QUESTION THE BRULES
A Brule is a bulls**t rule that society adopts to simplify its understanding of the world.
"Extraordinary minds question the Brules when they feel those Brules are out of alignment with their dreams and desires. They recognize that much of the way the world works is due...
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Tools to Rewrite Your Models of Reality
Question 1: Is my model of reality absolute or relative truth?
Question 2: Does this really mean what I think it means?
Answer these question and write it down.
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The world of absolute truth is fact-based. The world of the culturescape is opinion-based and agreement-based. Yet even though it exists solely in our heads, it is very, very real.
VISHEN LAKHIANI
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TRANSCEND THE CULTURESCAPE
We live in two types of worlds - absolute truth (where everyone agrees on the same) & relative truth (ideas, models, and myths that are passing through the generation). This world of relative truth is known as the culturescape.
"Extraor...
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Extraordinary minds are able to bend reality. They have bold and exciting visions for the future, yet their happiness is not tied to these visions. They are happy in the now. This balance allows them to move toward their visions at a much faster rate while having a ton of fun alon...
VISHEN LAKHIANI
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Extraordinary minds understand that happiness comes from within. They begin with happiness in the now and use it as a fuel to drive all their other visions and intentions for themselves and the world.
VISHEN LAKHIANI
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UPGRADE YOUR SYSTEMS FOR LIVING
Take a break from your busy life and ask - why we’re doing it?
Extraordinary minds are always looking to learning something new and refresh their systems for living. Then they evaluate to see how well those systems are working. Then they upgrade to the system.
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Extraordinary minds do not need to seek validation from outside opinion or through the attainment of goals. Instead, they are truly at peace with themselves and the world around them. They live fearlessly—immune to criticism or praise and fueled by their own inner happiness and se...
VISHEN LAKHIANI
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3 Questions
...to create a vision for your future
- What Experiences Do You Want to Have?
- How Do You Want to Grow?
- How Do You Want to Contribute?
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REWRITE YOUR MODELS OF REALITY
It’s up to us to choose what we want to believe about ourselves and our lives— and give our children the power to do the same.
"Extraordinary minds have models of reality that empower them to feel good about themselves and powerful in shifting the world to match the visions in t...
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CONSCIOUSNESS ENGINEERING
Consciousness Engineering is an operating system for the human mind. Your models of reality are like the hardware: They’re your beliefs about yourself and the world. Your systems for living are like the software.
We live with outdated beliefs and habits without eve...
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EMBRACE YOUR QUEST
The Uniqueness of extraordinary people is that they’re driven by a vision so big that they’re operating beyond the conventional limitations of work and life.
"Extraordinary minds are motivated by a quest or calling—a drive to create some positive change in the world. Th...
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BEND REALITY
As you start playing with consciousness engineering, questioning the Brules, and experimenting with new models of reality and systems for living, life starts to feel spacious and exciting. You’re moving toward a powerful upgrade. As Vishen calls it Bending Reality.
There ar...
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LIVE IN BLISSIPLINE
Blissipline: The discipline of daily Bliss
Blissipline Systems -
- The Power of Gratitude
- Forgiveness
- The Practice of Giving
Happiness is not some amorphous state outside of your control. It’s a trainable skill...
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