Inner Mastery, Outer Impact: How Your Five Core Energies Hold the Key to Success

Hitendra Wadhwa

Jun 2022 · Sold by Hachette Go

About this ebook

Based on his highly popular Columbia Business School course “Personal Leadership & Success”, Dr. Hitendra Wadhwa shares key principles for how to pursue success by letting your true self shine through in everything you do.

In our pursuit of success, we often struggle to balance the world’s demands with our own dreams. Some of us pursue Outer Success, wanting to be liked and loved, supported and promoted. But in our quest for worldly glory, we may ignore the subtle stirring of our spirit, waking up one day to realize just how far we have drifted from our personal ideals. Others among us seek Inner Success, wanting the freedom to pursue our own calling. But in our quest to be true to ourselves, we may end up hurting, disappointing, or antagonizing others, straining relationships and being sidelined.

It seems that our drives for Outer and Inner Success are destined to clash. But perhaps that’s only because we’ve been searching for success in the wrong places. We can pursue from the place where our greatest potential is held, our Inner Core, by activating Five Core Energies: Purpose, Wisdom, Growth, Love, and Self-Realization.

Through extensive scientific research and masterful storytelling about exemplary figures like Mahatma Gandhi, Abraham Lincoln, Mother Theresa, Eleanor Roosevelt, and Nelson Mandela—and everyday heroes drawn from Dr. Hitendra Wadhwa’s class at Columbia Business School and client workshops at Mentora Institute—readers arrive at timeless principles of success in life and leadership. Empowered by your Five Core Energies, you discover how to create outer impact from a place of inner mastery.

With a PhD in Management Science from MIT and a lifelong study of the world’s mystic traditions, Wadhwa brings a mathematician’s rigor and a truth-seeker’s spirit to some of today’s most vexing questions about authenticity, success, leadership, and human potential. This book shows how by activating your Inner Core and expressing it in everything you do, you create the conditions where Inner Success and Outer Success can flourish in mutual harmony.

Ratings and reviews

This might become one of your favourite self help books, if you're more focused on developing your innerself. The mind is our foremost home and everything else is a reflection of the image inside it. What goes in there brings out and reflects in the reality only. I personally liked the short stories and the language, though it's a pretty thick book over 350+ pages but the researched data and the amazing concepts justifies it. If you're a observant person then this might be the right one.

This book tells you how to activate your inner core, five core energy - purpose, wisdom, growth, love and self-realisation. The book is divided into chapters accordingly. The author tells about experiences of people, their life struggles, their pathway of achieving ultimate success. These stories inspired me a lot. There's a lot to learn from their journeys. There are struggles in everyone's life and hurdles on the way to success. One has to work on one's mind, beliefs to be ultimately successful. The author shows experiences of five famous personalities - Abraham Lincoln, Eleanor Roosevelt, Mahatma Gandhi, Mother Teresa and Nelson Mandela. Not only famous figures, Dr. Hitendra Wadhwa has stated ordinary people's life stories. Readers can learn principles of success in life and leadership. How to create outer impact from inner mastery. The language is simple and each story is inspiring and each chapter is elaborated in a perfect manner. It helps strengthening our mind. Love the book!

This book tells you how to activate your inner core, five core energy - purpose, wisdom, growth, love and self-realisation. The book is divided into chapters accordingly. The author tells about inspiring life stories of 5 famous as well as ordinary people, their pathway of achieving ultimate success. Readers can learn principles of success in life and leadership. And how to create outer impact from inner mastery. The language is simple and each chapter is so perfectly detailed! Love this book!

About the author

Hitendra Wadhwa is the founder of the Mentora Institute and Mentora Foundation, host of the podcast Intersections, and a Professor of Practice at Columbia Business School, where he teaches Columbia’s most popular MBA leadership course, for which he has won the Dean’s Award for Teaching Excellence. His widely acclaimed research and teaching on leadership have been covered by Fortune, CNN, Psychology Today, BBC World Service, Financial Times, Wall Street Journal, Inc., and Forbes.

Wadhwa’s Mentora Institute is at the forefront of creating a new model of leadership for the 21st century. His clients include Accenture, Chevron, Kraft Heinz, Lululemon, Morgan Stanley, The New York Times, SAP, United Health Group and more. His nonprofit Mentora Foundation is committed to building a principled world by strengthening the moral, mental, and social fibers in their families, organizations, communities, and nations.  

Previously, Wadhwa was an Engagement Manager at McKinsey & Company and the CEO/founder of a Silicon Valley start-up, Paramark, which was twice recognized as a Top-100 Internet technology company by Technologic Partners/Venture Wire.