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Mindvalley's Vishen Lakhiani On The New Age Of Entrepreneurship On the sidelines of Sharjah Entrepreneurship Festival 2018, Mindvalley founder Vishen Lakhiani talks about his mindset for successful ventures.

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The second day of the Sharjah Entrepreneurship 2018 (SharjahEF), organized by Sharjah Entrepreneurship Center- Sheraa, started on a high note with a keynote speech by Vishen Lakhiani, the founder of edutech firm Mindvalley, a global online self-development school that promises a "transformational education' to its followers and which is dubbed the world's largest personal growth brand.

Entrepreneur Middle East team chats with Lakhiani about how his powerful framework for elevating one's level of consciousness in order to envision and live an extraordinary life, could be applied to entrepreneurial thinking and starting up new ventures.

"The new age of entrepreneurship is about intrinsic goals which means building businesses because there is something you want to get out to the world and something that is part of your life mission," says Lakhiani.

The two-day SharjahEF 2018 was attended by more than 3,000 people and featured more than 100 prominent local, regional and international speakers.

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