{"id":79369,"date":"2026-07-08T14:25:45","date_gmt":"2026-07-08T13:25:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.mindvalley.com\/?p=79369"},"modified":"2026-07-18T12:42:49","modified_gmt":"2026-07-18T11:42:49","slug":"lessons-from-the-top-0-1-percent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mindvalley.com\/blog\/lessons-from-the-top-0-1-percent\/","title":{"rendered":"Everything I\u2019ve learned from this top 0.1%. \u2013 The 9 principles you need right now"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Some of you are going to be uncomfortable with this email.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Good. I was uncomfortable making this video.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It&#8217;s a video about what I learned from being in rooms with some of the most powerful human beings on Earth \u2014 the 0.00001% \u2014 over the last 20 years. Not reading about them. Sitting with them, face to face, and getting to ask them the questions I&#8217;d always wanted answered, to understand how they actually see the world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The video is blowing up on YouTube right now. I think you&#8217;re about to see why.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In it, I share insights from ten people:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Elon Musk<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Bill Gates<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Richard Branson<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Dalai Lama<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Arianna Huffington<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Peter Diamandis<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Naveen Jain<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Dave Asprey<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Paul McKenna<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Michael Beckwith<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But before you watch it, I want to tell you something.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I don&#8217;t respect all of these individuals.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Some of them have said things I find deeply troubling. One recently called empathy a weakness of Western civilization. Others have been at the center of scandals I&#8217;m not going to explain away. I am not here to defend any of them, and this is not a video about who they are.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@vishen\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\"><strong>It&#8217;s a video about what they do.<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Because I wasn&#8217;t in those rooms as a fan. I was there as an observer,&nbsp; closer to an anthropologist than an admirer. And when you strip away the politics, the headlines, and the noise, something strange happens.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">You start seeing patterns.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Not in their character. In their operating system. How they process pain. How they make decisions under uncertainty. What they&#8217;ve trained themselves to do, often unconsciously, that most people never learn.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">That&#8217;s why I deliberately chose a mix. Saints and sinners. Billionaires and monks. Elon Musk and the Dalai Lama in the same video, on purpose. Because I wanted to answer one question: is there something universal here \u2014 something that transcends wealth, morality, even luck?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It turns out there is. <strong>9 things<\/strong>, actually.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In 2013, I asked Elon what I thought was the dumbest question of my life: if we blended you down to your core essence, what would be left? He laughed. Then he went quiet. His answer wasn&#8217;t a joke at all \u2014 and it explains almost everything about how that man moves through the world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In 1998, I watched the richest man alive grill hamburgers for a backyard full of broke interns. I was one of them. It took me years to understand what Bill Gates was actually doing that evening.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And the richest man who ever lived \u2014 before Elon \u2014 once wrote a poem revealing his real secret. It&#8217;s not oil. It&#8217;s not ruthlessness.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">When I tell you who wrote it, you won&#8217;t believe the words came from him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Everything I&#8217;ve learned from this top 0.1%. &#8211; The 9 principles you need right now<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"990\" height=\"542\" src=\"https:\/\/storage.googleapis.com\/mv-prod-blog-en-assets\/2026\/07\/969e5045-image1.gif\" alt=\"Lessons from the Top 0.1%\" class=\"wp-image-79373\" srcset=\"https:\/\/storage.googleapis.com\/mv-prod-blog-en-assets\/2026\/07\/969e5045-image1.gif 990w, https:\/\/storage.googleapis.com\/mv-prod-blog-en-assets\/2026\/07\/969e5045-image1-768x420.gif 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 990px) 100vw, 990px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@vishen\" type=\"link\" id=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@vishen\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">[\ud83d\udc49 Watch the full video here]<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Go in with open eyes.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Take what&#8217;s useful.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Leave what isn&#8217;t.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">That&#8217;s all I ask.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">If it lands for you, hit subscribe on the channel \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@vishen\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\"><strong>@vishen on YouTube<\/strong><\/a>. I&#8217;m putting out a new piece every week designed to help you see further than the noise of the news cycle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">With love,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"200\" src=\"https:\/\/storage.googleapis.com\/mv-prod-blog-en-assets\/2024\/12\/99dc1d9d-vishen_signature.webp\" alt=\"Vishen Lakhiani signature\" class=\"wp-image-76162\" style=\"width:280px\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em><strong>P.S.<\/strong> Principle #2 in that video is know your why \u2014 and there&#8217;s a reason it comes so early.&nbsp;<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>The people who move rooms, close investors, and build movements aren&#8217;t the loudest. 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