Code of the Extraordinary Mind, The: 10 Unconventional Laws to Redefine Your Life and Succeed On Your Own Terms

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Bestselling Books Week Ended June 13". Wall Street Journal. 18 June 2020. ISSN 0099-9660 . Retrieved 8 April 2021.

The model of reality that we are not enough is terribly painful, we live our lives trying to prove that we’re enough. Sometimes this can be an asset; for example, my drive to prove I was enough led me to a certain degree of entrepreneurial success. But it’s not the optimal path, because working to disprove the model of not being enough has a hidden cost. That cost is that you will depend on others for validation. Law 9: See, I genuinely disliked my job. I'd sit in my private office at Microsoft headquarters, staring at my triple-screen monitor, and count the minutes until I could escape. I disliked the work so much that, even though Bill Gates was standing just a few feet away from me surrounded by my colleagues, I felt too ashamed to shake his hand. I felt I shouldn't be there. It turns out that our brains are hardwired to perform at their best not when they are negative or even neutral, but when they are positive. Stop postponing your happiness. Be happy now. Your thoughts and beliefs do create your reality, but only when your present state is joyful The Code of the Extraordinary Mind: 10 Unconventional Laws to Redefine Your Life and Succeed on Your Own Terms Brule: A Definition A Brule is a bulls**t rule that we adopt to simplify our understanding of the world.LESSON 1: Our models of reality lie below the surface. Often we do not realize we have them until some intervention or contemplative Happiness matters because it can improve performance at your job. Good attitude yield better results. How happiness happens Lakhiani posits that you can ‘bend reality’ by which he means that you can have such a startlingly different view of what happens to you that life is never the same again and outsiders walk away wondering if you are quite right in the head.

In May 2016 he published the condensed insights of all of these interviews and his own experiences in The Code Of The Extraordinary Mind, which gives you ten rules to follow. Lakhiani has also founded A-Fest, an invite-only conference offering training in entrepreneurship and mindfulness. I'd like to start off by saying I WANTED to like this book. I really truly wanted to be able to read it and take even a tiny piece of advice from it and help improve my life. But, alas, by the 3/4 mark in the book i found myself skimming more than

Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary. If you aren’t sure what to do, just take a step—a tiny baby step. When the universe calls on you, even if you don’t know the exact path to success—take a baby step. Baby steps show intention. Straight from “Do” by Kevin Kelly or “Poke the Box” by Seth Godin. What if everything we think we know about how the world works--our ideas of love, education, spirituality, work, happiness, and love--are based on Brules (bullsh*t rules) that get passed from generation to generation and are long past their expiration date? A key ingredient of this state is that your happiness is not tied to attaining your vision. It comes from the pursuit of your vision, combined with a sense of gratitude for what you already have. End goals are about following your heart. Time flies when you’re pursuing them. You may work hard toward these goals, but you feel it’s worth it.