The greatest work of fiction in the world today is probably 'Star Wars'.
Now, bear with me for a moment, but no other movie has captured
the imagination of billions of people, and pretty much created 40 years
of incredible fictional characters and ideas and mythology.
But what's really fascinating about 'Star Wars', and the reason why I think
so many people are captivated by it, is the idea of Jedi training,
the idea that there's these abilities within human beings that can be unlocked
when we learn from great teachers.
I've always been fascinated by Yoda.
In fact, as I'm filming this, there's a little statue of Yoda
here on the set.
This is one of the many superhero sculptures we have
across the Mindvalley office.
But I've always asked myself, in the modern world,
what is the equivalent of Jedi training?
Most of us are attracted to the idea of leveling up consciousness,
but let's go back a second.
What does that mean?
Changing the way we see and interact with the world requires a series of tiny
adjustments that lead to long-term shifts in how we view everything about our lives.
I like to measure these adjustments through a process I call R.O.S.E.,
which stands for Rate Of Self Evolution.
It is that backbone of transformational education and what we do at Mindvalley
where we teach you how to harness the power and elevate consciousness
to transform the way you experience reality.
We've joined forces with many of the greatest teachers in the world,
in every aspect of being human.
We think of these as our modern-day Yoda.
Each teacher at Mindvalley tackles a different component of self-evolution
that has led them to outstanding shifts in their own experience of life itself.
So what exactly does it mean to be a modern-day Yoda
or master or optimal human being?
Well, there are seven things that I want you to pay attention to in your life.
School doesn't teach you these.
But if you pay attention to these seven things, you have a reference point
and a framework to truly elevate and move through your personal growth
in really powerful steps.
First thing you want to pay attention to is the idea of bending reality.
Now, this isn't as out there as it sounds.
Most of us are focused on our outer world, what's happening around us and how we are
reacting to it that we forgot how much our inner world plays a role in creating
and shaping the outer world.
Bending reality is about accessing the tools of the inner world to increase our
rate of luck and synchronicity in the outer world.
Imagine if the right people, the right opportunities,
the right circumstances gravitated to you.
This is what bending reality is all about.
And it's the first concept that we use in this framework.
Now the second thing that you want to pay attention to is intuition.
Intuition is the idea that we can access information outside our physical being.
So many of us are looking outside ourselves, trying to figure out what it is
we're here to do.
We're working at our jobs that make our partners or parents proud.
We are choosing lifestyles that boost our financial success but might deplete our
mental health with every passing day.
And the reason we stay stuck in these cycles of self-sabotage is because we are
out of touch with our intuition, that inner guiding voice.
At your core, you already know who you are and what you are here on Earth to do.
That part of you that knows has just got to be accessed so that you can make
the best decisions for yourself.
So when you learn to tap into your intuition, what you learn is how to gain
access to an unlimited source of creativity and genius,
the part of you that can project your awareness across time and space
to retrieve new ideas and information, the part of you that is limitless in its
ability to channel inspiration and wisdom.
And the brilliant part about this is that it's not about building a new skill,
it's about clearing space to access what is already there.
When you are able to tap into this, you notice a couple of things in your life.
You have unlimited creativity.
You are able to flow, whether it's on stage or writing a book
or ideating at a meeting.
And it's a really powerful skill for anyone to have.
Now, the third thing is purposeful living.
There is nothing more attractive than a man or a woman who is working
on their purpose.
Purposeful living means you're connected to your core, you're tapped in,
you know why you're here, you're pursuing that purpose or multiple purposes.
And what often happens when you're able to tap into this is it feels as if
the universe has your back.
Life seems to flow effortlessly as you move towards your purpose.
All of us, I believe, are here for a unique reason,
and it's up to us in this life to discover what that reason or that multitude
of reasons might be.
Now, number four is unity consciousness.
And what this means is recognizing that the age of individuality is over,
that we are now cells in an 8-billion-cellular being that is
the human experiment, and that all of us as cells have a role to play.
And we are also here to look after each other.
So when you get to this level of consciousness, what happens is all
relationships become win-win.
There is no fight or struggle.
There is no form of negotiation where you want to get more than the other person.
There is no ending of a relationship, where there is bad blood between people.
Everything is win-win.
And you live your life recognizing that you and the other are really one,
and that separation is an illusion.
This brings us to number five, stepping beyond the culturescape.
The culturescape is a word I coined in my book, The Code of the Extraordinary Mind,
to describe the tangled web of human beliefs, ideas, and dogma that perpetuate
the world and create this thing that we call life.
But so much of life exists only in our minds and what implanted them
from generations past.
And in a world that is changing so rapidly, it's increasingly important that
we escape the culturescape, that we question what we've been passed
down as the rules of life, the rules of business,
the rules of Catholicism, the rules of marriage,
the rules of parenting, the rules of what it means to be a man or
a woman in today's world.
The more you step out of the culturescapte, the more you have freedom
to truly be a visionary and invent new, better systems
for the leading edge of humanity.
So don't accept the dogma of generations past.
Now, all of these so far are tying to each other.
Intuition, knowing your purpose, seeing that you are part of
a larger whole, being able to bend reality and stepping beyond the culturescape.
But there are two more.
Number six is being able to access altered states of consciousness on command
so you can do what you need to do.
These altered states include words like flow, mojo, samadhi, unity consciousness.
And when you're able to access these altered states on command,
you're able to function not just in a more basic level of consciousness like most
human beings, but in polyphasic levels of consciousness.
You're able to access different levels of consciousness depending on what you're
trying to do, whether it's flow ideas or shift the world, or connect with people
or really focus on that code that you're meant to write.
A catchall phrase for this experience is often the word "flow."
And it really means being able to be so productive that it's as if you can
slow down time.
Imagine time dilating around you.
Imagine the disappointments of the past and the anxieties of the future
simultaneously vanishing as you align yourself entirely with the present moment.
This is knows as being in the flow state,
and it is entirely possible to enter it at will.
When you are working in a state of flow, your productivity increases up to 500%.
That can translate into a week's worth of work being done in one day.
Imagine the amount of time and energy saved when one learns to do this.
Imagine the stress and overwhelm that disappears.
In fact, when you're able to do this, two things start happening in your life.
You become immune to overwhelm, and you can multitask like a master.
You can run multiple companies, multiple projects without feeling that
life is crushing you.
And now, we come to the seventh, and the seventh aspect is about
magnifying health, vitality and longevity.
All of these tools together may sound incredible, but none of these are
achievable or sustainable without our physical human bodies.
So at Mindvalley, we borrow ideas from world-class experts
on health optimization, on boosting brain power, on recovery,
on increasing your lifetime.
And the body is such an incredible vehicle to doing everything else
that your soul is here to do.
So back to Yoda.
Yoda said, "Luminous beings we are, not this crude matter."
But this crude matter is so important for channeling all of these powers
in our physical world.
So when you look at life from those seven things, or at least I do,
I know how to measure my rate of self-evolution.
Am I growing my intuitive ability?
Am I growing my sense of connection with other people?
Am I creating win-win relationships?
Am I more resilient to stress?
Am I able to access flow?
Am I seeing an increase in my rate of serendipity?
And almost all of personal growth we train people is about developing this.
So in Mindvalley, every time you do a Mindvalley Quest,
whether it's Lisa Nichols' Speak & Inspire or Steven Kotler's Habit of Ferocity
or Robin Sharma's Hero Genius Legend, all of these layer on.
And eventually, these seven things become your new state of beingness in the world.
So if you found these ideas interesting, I'd love to invite you to attend a special
Masterclass I'm doing.
It's just me teaching the key ideas and principles I've learned
over the last one year.
And it's about elevating your rate of self-evolution.
I'm going to lay down three important rules and philosophies I found that I now
live my life with.
And it's allowed me to accelerate how fast I'm growing.
I think you'll find this interesting.
Go ahead and click the button to enroll in the Masterclass and I will see you there.