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  • - [Vishen] There used to be a time when I would, every now and then,

  • bring donuts to the office for my teammates, because I thought that this was

  • a nice gesture to show that I cared.

  • Today, I would never do something like this.

  • So here's what happened.

  • In 2016, I went through a transformation that changed me dramatically.

  • I had to toss out 70% of the clothes in my closet because my body shape changed.

  • I went from 22% body fat to 15% body fat.

  • My energy shot through the roof.

  • My skin started clearing up.

  • But this is how it started.

  • It was January of 2016 and I was at an event called

  • the Transformational Leadership Council.

  • It's a gathering of some of the top authors in spirituality and health and

  • wellness all across the world.

  • At this particular gathering, I was new and I saw this one guy

  • who was being presented with a gold medal by all of these other authors.

  • And one by one, they were getting up and acknowledging him and how

  • he changed their life.

  • So apparently, he had helped a large number of these authors

  • go through a massive health transformation.

  • So when Eric got on stage to get his award, he announced that he was going to

  • do this health transformation challenge again for the authors in that room

  • and I jumped at that opportunity.

  • I decided to connect with Eric and sign up for the next challenge

  • which he called WildFit.

  • So it was February of 2016 that I participated in this

  • 90-day WildFit program.

  • And what happened to me next was transformative.

  • So Eric's a South African entrepreneur and he had started a number of different

  • companies in different fields, including a production company that worked

  • on movies like Pirates of the Caribbean.

  • But it's what he does in his spare time that makes him really unique.

  • He spends a good deal of his spare time living with the San people

  • of South Africa, hunting with them, living with their tribe,

  • understanding their way of life.

  • And he noticed something fascinating about the San people.

  • Even in their older ages, he noticed that the men and women

  • of the tribe were remarkably healthy.

  • But here's the curious thing, modern science shows that the San people

  • do not do any more exercise than modern living humans.

  • It's a myth that many indigenous tribes actually get more exercise.

  • So what is it that made the San people so much more healthier?

  • Eric believed it was their diet.

  • So Eric gained an ability to flip a switch in his biology.

  • Rather than get his body to crave sugar and burn the sugar that he's consuming,

  • he trained his body to burn the excess fat.

  • Our bodies today carry about a quarter-million calories of excess

  • fat around us.

  • Eric trained his body to tap into those fat reserves for incredible energy

  • and incredible health.

  • And WildFit was transforming the health of all his friends including me.

  • Check out these videos of fellow authors at the Transformational Leadership

  • Council talking about what Eric just did for them.

  • - [Woman 1] I cannot say enough about the WildFit program.

  • I released weight, 19 pounds, and I've kept it off.

  • - [Woman 2] My allergies went tremendously down, and also, I started having the last

  • year's pain in my bones, like on my knees, my joints, and after doing WildFit,

  • that was actually gone without doing extra exercises.

  • - [Man 1] Don't know how many times I've been on diet, but every time,

  • I just couldn't make it.

  • And thanks to Eric and the WildFit, I lost about 20-some pounds.

  • - [Woman 3] And what I love about WildFit is that it brings you the confidence

  • to live the life you want to live, to become the owner of your choices,

  • in terms of the food you eat, and also, to be aware of your habits.

  • - [Man 2] Fifteen pounds fell off.

  • That never happened before.

  • Fifteen pounds fell off, but not because it was a diet,

  • it was because I was running a new life.

  • WildFit is not a diet and it's not a lifestyle change.

  • WildFit is my whole psychology.

  • - Now, isn't that amazing?

  • Now, it wasn't just these authors.

  • Eric also just, a couple of months back, received a gold medal from the Canadian

  • Senate for what he did transforming the health of a Canadian politician.

  • So WildFit transformed me.

  • It was as if I reversed my aging by a good five to eight years.

  • And, you know, when you stumble upon something that's so powerful,

  • you want to tell all your friends about it, so I told my parents,

  • who were skeptical.

  • My mom and my dad, who was 70, went through it,

  • and they had a transformation.

  • And then I decided the ultimate test was to bring this to my company.

  • And this is where you see why I no longer bring donuts to the office.

  • Over 100 people in Mindvalley and their spouses went through WildFit.

  • The results just utterly blew us away.

  • One guy, Diab, from Egypt, who was hooked on Coke,

  • finally got off his addiction.

  • Our CTO, Gareth, lost 51 pounds, and the results also applied to women

  • all across the team.

  • And what happened is all of these transformations were happening in 90 days.

  • But the result didn't stop after 90 days.

  • And so as people's energy levels started shooting up, their work improved,

  • but not only that, they started getting a desire to take up sports,

  • to go into weight training, to start training for Spartan Races.

  • This transformed our company in a dramatic way.

  • And that's when we knew we had to bring WildFit to our Mindvalley student base.

  • And that's how Mindvalley WildFit emerged.

  • So diets don't often work and this is why Americans go into diets, come out of it,

  • fail, go back into diets, come out of it, fail.

  • The diet industry is designed to sell you a broken system, a broken product

  • so you have to keep buying and buying and buying over and over and over again.

  • WildFit reprograms your brain to only want the things which are healthy for you.

  • If you're eating unhealthy and going for a run, it doesn't work.

  • And you have to fix food first before you go into exercise.

  • Using the behavioral modification system of WildFit on Mindvalley's

  • Quest technology, you find that your engine flips.

  • You go from having a body that requires sugar and carbs for energy,

  • to having a body that instead burns the excess fat that we travel with.

  • And this causes you to dramatically improve your health.

  • If you find these ideas interesting, check out WildFit, our new Masterclass

  • with Eric Edmeades is airing right now,

  • and I can't wait for you to check this out.

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- [Vishen] There used to be a time when I would, every now and then,

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