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‘Our education system doesn’t lead to a happier life’

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10 years flat, at one-fifth of the government budget, and we can give Malaysia the number one education system in the world, says Lakhiani. Photo: Bernama

KUALA LUMPUR: The current education system doesn’t focus Malaysians to lead a happier life, says Malaysian-born entrepreneur, author, speaker and activist Vishen Lakhiani.

Lakhiani, who is also Mindvalley founder/chief executive officer and a New York Times bestselling author of The Code of the Extraordinary Mind, said he wants to work with the government to reform Malaysian education.

“I have a vision, to transform the entire Malaysian education system, whenever the government needs us, we’re here,” he told Bernama in a recent interview.

“Give me 10 years flat, at one-fifth of the government budget, and we can give Malaysia the number one education system in the world,” said Lakhiani, who says his methods have been adopted by many people around the world.

He said he is familiar with the country’s education system as his mother is a former government teacher, and looks forward to following her footsteps to change Malaysian lives.

“We are waiting for the government, for the Prime Minister Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamed to pick up the phone and call me,” he said.

“I have a deep love for Malaysia and I want to help Malaysia’s education because my mother is a former Malaysian school teacher and the Malaysian education system, in my opinion, is one of the worst in the world, but it is very easily fixable if you have a visionary setting,” he said.

He said while schools teach biology, they don’t teach you how to live long and be healthy, pointing out that Malaysia is among the fattest countries in Asia.

“Schools don’t teach you how to access elevated states of consciousness so that you can live and discover your own truth.

“They will teach you how to memorise facts, maths, geography and history, but not how to think creatively or to become an entrepreneur,” he said.

10 years flat, at one-fifth of the government budget, and we can give Malaysia the number one education system in the world, says Lakhiani. Photo: Bernama

Lakhiani said the education that truly matters is one that leads to happier, better-off, connected, creative, successful and fulfilled human beings, the opposite of what the current education indoctrinates us.

He said Mindvalley does this through great technology, through behavioural change in psychology, through working with the best teachers in the world and through strong and powerful storytelling.

“Our platform at mindvalley.com and the app is the delivery mechanism, we’re growing very fast, and we’re getting global recognition,” he said, adding that Mindvalley will be launching a new education for the mind, body and soul, and will disseminate this to a billion people within the next 10 years.

“What Mindvalley does is — we take people through a deep immersion of these topics and you identify where you’re really doing well, and where you might be lagging behind, and you also create really concrete visions for your life in all of these topics.

“After you create your vision, the education is customised to give you the best training to get through that vision, and that is done not just through video but through delivering change, through human psychology, to bring in some of the best teachers in the world, and through the community,” he said.

He said Mindvalley looks at multiple different pillars of how to transform a human being, and layer them, powered by technology.

However, he said technology is often invisible, you don’t see the technology, and that’s the way it should be.

“It has to feel as human as possible, but the end result is a radically transformed human being and this is why so many celebrities, so many world performers, attribute a lot of their success to what Mindvalley is providing them,” he said. – Bernama

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