Most people meditate to escape their problems. Vishen Lakhiani meditates to solve them.
In this episode, Vishen Lakhiani and Jay Shetty talk about the difference between the meditation you use every morning and the kind you only pull out when life hands you a real problem.
Vishen opens up about why he left a waitress a 50% tip after a breakfast where everything went wrong, the night Jay disappeared from dinner for two hours, and what he did with the sadness of missing his son’s 15th birthday.
Learn why happiness isn’t the goal at all, and how a list of crazy goals Vishen wrote down in 2010 came true within two years, right down to the Emmy.
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Chapters
0:00 — Vishen’s first meditation experience
0:42 — Why he gave up Hinduism at 19
1:23 — Active vs. passive meditation
3:17 — The coffee maker and the electric drill
5:11 — Why compassion is something you do for yourself
6:44 — The 50% tip for a waitress who got everything wrong
9:29 — Why we mistake kindness for weakness
10:04 — The night Jay disappeared for two hours
12:36 — Why happiness isn’t the goal
15:23 — The poem Rockefeller wrote at 83
16:02 — Missing his son’s 15th birthday
17:20 — How to stop sadness turning into guilt
20:01 — Forgiveness without narcissism
23:01 — Your destiny is a highway
25:04 — Focus on the what and why, not the how
27:03 — The 100-page vision that came true
31:17 — How to know you had a good meditation
33:04 — 5% of the world, 70% of its lawyers
34:46 — "You’ll never make money with that"
Watch the FULL episode on Netflix & Spotify 🎙️
Netflix – https://dub.sh/QaUsKeD
Spotify – https://dub.sh/axUXylv
Full Episode With Vishen Lakhiani:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-d1dvrj_fMk
