Why Happiness is the New Productivity (The Story of Mindvalley)

In 2009 Vishen Lakhiani was asked to speak at Engage Today in Calgary along with such luminaries as Sir Richard Branson, His Holiness the Dalai Lama, Stephen Covey, Nobel Prize Winner F.W De Klerk, Tony Hsieh, the founder of Zappos.com and world-famous artist Wyland.

This speech was voted as one of the top 3 speeches of the entire event (along with Tony Hsieh and motivational speaker Sean Stephenson).

Vishen talks about Flow: The Ultimate State of Human Existence. He then shared 10 tips on how to master this state and how to bring it to teams, families, and groups you lead.

The video is just 39 mins. The last 13 mins are just Q&A with the audience (with a lot of jokes in between)

This isn't what you'd learn about in MBA school. Vishen confesses he has no business training (his degree is in Computer Science). But either way, Mindvalley is growing rapidly and averaging 80% growth year to year every year for the last FIVE years straight. And this steller growth has been done without any outside investment, funded by just $250 Vishen used to hire his first website designer in 2003.

For more on Mindvalley visit: http://www.mindvalley.com

And for Vishen's blog on personal growth visit : http://www.finerminds.com

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[vmarie822]

Robert Fritz - The Path of Least Resistance described this very process of creativity with some other variations years ago.

[EvoATLAS]

10 minutes in to this video, and I am in tears. I can relate to every single thing he is saying. Literally every thing. I have never felt as happy as I do right now, I feel like years of searching for people like me have vanished. In its place is a sense of comfort and home. I want to go through anything I can to help out mindvalley in any way I can. Job, pay, or neither, I want to help in any and every way I can.

[resonnant]

Brilliant!



[sbgitana1]

I want to hear that white man rap!

[shehroonz]

Simple principle “I slept and dreamt that life was joy. I awoke and saw that life was service. I acted and behold, service was joy.”

― Rabindranath Tagore

[Awesomemind88]

Truly amazing video! I'm an avid follower and started The Silva method 3 days ago!

[J1ngy]

Absolutely fanbtastic! Loving the awesomeness; it's just so refreshing to see like minded souls sharing and caring. Thank you

[TheNetworkDad]

Loved the video. The ideas around support and enhancing the culture of your company and it's people are refreshing. Especially the Awesomeness report!

[prarthana62]

brilliant!

[Mom725]

Thank you, Vishen, you, your wife, your company employees - all so awesome and inspiring - We are excited!!!!