♪ [music] ♪- [Robin] Do not go to sleep unless you spend 60 minutes in learning.
A lot of people say, "Well, I don't have that time."
Join what I call "Traffic University."
In other words, if you're in the car driving to work, why listen to the news?
The job of the news, Vishen, is to frighten you.
The job of the news is to release cortisol, the fear hormone in your brain, so you become
addicted to the news.
Here's what the research says.
The research says, actually, people who watch the news every day, see the world less realistically
than people who don't watch the news.
You actually…- [Vishen] Is that so?
- Yeah, because you actually train your brain to think that life is about wars, robbery,
the worst of humanity, and the lowest common denominator versus knowing the reality.
Most people are great.
We've never lived in a time of so much opportunity.
So, the 60 minutes student is simply this.
You make a commitment to be an eternal learner.
Okay?
And you make some time every day to listen to a podcast or go through an online course
or watch a webinar, like your viewers are brilliantly doing.
Victims don't like learning new ideas, Vishen.
It disrupts their safe harbor.
What makes a victim is they don't want to hear a new idea.
It's actually fear.
They want to think the same thoughts, speak the same words, live the same life for 80
years and call it a lifetime.
But the people who are watching right now are my heroes because it takes a lot of bravery
to say, "I'm going to learn for 60 minutes every day and I'm going to feel the discomfort
of growth, but my commitment to growth and becoming the best human being I could be is
so much more important than the fear or the discomfort that I feel."
And that's what makes a hero, actually.
- That's beautifully said.
One of the biggest things I did in my life that really moved the dial, I spend about
an hour every day in traffic, right?
Half an hour to get to work, half an hour to come back.
And recently I moved to an apartment that was even further away from my office.
And for the first few months, I was getting so miserable because I used to have a seven-minute
drive, now I had a half hour drive, but then I stumbled upon this idea, turn it into the
"University of Traffic"or "Traffic University," as you said.
And I started listening to podcasts, I started listening to our own Mindvalley courses. and
I'm so glad now that I live further away from my office because I get to spend an hour every
single day growing myself and I really want to encourage you guys to look into this.
This is so powerful, folks.
And again, it's within reach of anyone of us.
- "Traffic University," you're in a car, that's an opportunity to learn.
Have you heard about "Running College?"
"Running College," definitely, I want your viewers to join "Running College."
"Running College" is, you go running, listen to an audio book, listen to a course.
Have you heard about "School of Walking?"
- I have heard about "School of Walking."
- When you are walking, why daydream?
When you're walking, listen to a course.
Like, everywhere, you go grocery shopping, why not inject your…
Why not reverse your thinking by listening to a course while you're grocery shopping.
Anything that you're doing, you can be learning . And that's…- You're right.
I still have my hardcore rap playlist when I'm working out or running, but in the car,
in traffic, when everything is just gentle and smooth, quiet and I can focus, that's
what I love listening to courses and podcasts.
Phenomenal tip.
- Well, I think the key is really this, learning collapses the timeline.
You can try to figure out how to build a great business or a world-class life or dial in
the mindset of the people I work with, the titans.
Or how to live a life that makes history while you create a life you adore.
You can try to figure it out on your own, it'll probably take you 50 years or 100 years
even if you ever get there.
Or you can learn from people who've already done it and get the information in an hour
or 20 minutes, or the right book, or the right course, or the right audio book.
You can collapse the timeline so that every single day becomes a platform to get exponentially
closer to the life you've always wanted to live.
- What you're saying is so relevant to our community . This is the core, the DNA of the
Mindvalley community.
For those of you who are new to Mindvalley, know this, most people who are part of our
community which is now like 2 million strong, they see growth as a goal.
Most regular people, ordinary people, they think of their goals as the amount of money
in their bank account, or their title, or their job, or how high up the career ladder,
not Mindvalley people.
If you're here, you probably get what I'm talking about.
They see growth as a goal.
So every single day, if they are growing, they know that they have a right to celebrate,
that they are getting closer to who they're meant to be.
Their battle is often with their our own levels of eternal greatness.
They constantly want to express the greatest version of themselves.
So if this resonates with you, growth as a goal, you're in the right place and I'm so
glad that we have you Robin, here, to remind us of just how powerful and crucial this idea
is to our lifestyle.
- Let's strip away all the seductions of society, and if you don't mind, I want to get a little
philosophical.
But I want to speak some deep truth here.
And I believe the number one purpose of life, it's not having the Ferrari, or the watch,
or the title, or the big house, or people thinking you're beautiful or cool or whatever.
I think at the end of our lives, when we get to the last hour for our last day, it'll just
come down to one thing.
Who did we become?
Did we make the investments required to awaken the hero that lives within every single one
of the people that's watching.
Did we learn how to turn pain into power?
Did we learn how to take our fears and make them into faith?
Did we use the potential that we were born into to live it, not so we just did great
things for our loved ones and for our lifestyle, but made the world a better place.
The number one purpose of life when you strip away the hypnosis of our culture and the media,
the number one purpose of life, it's to grow .
It's to become who we are destined and built to be for the benefit of our joy, but also
to make the world a place of more love, more light, more heroism, more creativity, more
productivity.
That is the responsibility, not just the opportunity, that's the responsibility of every single
person who's watching right now, to turn down the ego pursuits and to get seriously in the
game and say, "Life is short . I better do something right now to start owning my genius,
to start stripping away my fears."
And just because the world doesn't live, the world is interested in what people are eating
for breakfast and dancing cats on the social media.
And I think your people are a lot like me and you.
There's a whole different game to play and it's not what the 95% are doing.
The game or the key to life, it's growth.
It's building your interior.
It's going out in the world and becoming your genius and doing something epic with your
life.
And you know what, don't do it tomorrow, don't postpone it because no one knows what tomorrow
is going to bring.
Do it today.
- I love that, man.
Because even though I intuitively know this stuff, it so helps to have you as a coach
reminding me how important this is.
This is beautiful.
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