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

by Vishen Lakhiani

world of relative truth. It’s the mental world of ideas, constructs, concepts, models, myths, patterns, and rules that we’ve

marriage, money, religion, and laws reside. This is relative truth because these ideas are true only for a particular culture or tribe.

Many of these beliefs and systems are dysfunctional,

reality they keep us locked into lives far more limited than what we’re truly capable of.

For the most part there’s no rational basis to prove that what we’re doing is the right way or the only way to do things. Much of what you think is true is all in your head.

The rules are very real in the sense that they actually govern how people and societies act, but very real does not mean very right.

But as our world is undergoing exponential change at a staggering pace, following the masses and doing what’s always been done isn’t a path that leads to being extraordinary.

Blindly following may be efficient, but it’s not always smart.

we absorb the rules transmitted by culture and act in the world based on these beliefs.

we also need to idolize brainpower—the engineers, the scientists, the people who are moving humanity forward through innovation.