you do your best out of work when you do your best in a work.

Hello and welcome to the Psychology Podcast. Today we welcome my friend,

Hitendra Wadhwa, on the show. Hitendra is professor of practice at Columbia Business School,

where he teaches Columbia's most popular leadership course, the award-winning

personal leadership and success. Hitendra is also the founder of Mentora Institute,

which set the forefront of creating a new model of leadership that is agile,

authentic and attainable. Hitendra's research and teaching on personal leadership have

been covered by many prestigious outlets, and he is the author of the book Inner Mastery Outer

Impact. In this episode, I talked to Hitendra about personal development. Growth is often associated

with the mastery of skills, but Hitendra reminds us that inner work is also growth. The internal

battles we face lead us to become more attuned to our most authentic selves, and in order to unlock

our full potential, he shares with us five core energies and how to activate them. We also touch

on the topics of leadership, service, purpose, and transcendence. This is a really personally

meaningful episode for me, and I'm sure you'll see just how incredibly humble he is. I really

appreciate his mixture of humbleness and wisdom, and I'm sure that you'll get a lot out of this

episode just as I did. So that further ado, I give you Hitendra Wadhwa. Hitendra! So good to see you!

Thanks for coming to my podcast. Scott, it's always a pleasure to be with you, and this time

and even greater honor to be with your listeners as well. Oh, well congratulations on your new book

Inner Mastery Outer Impact. Is this your first book? This is my first, and thank you for that.

It's been quite a labor of love. I was thinking about writing about 12 years ago and every year since,

and I just wanted to mature the work. I wanted to get it to a place where, as a mathematician, as

I guess I have been in my past life, I was waiting for all the pieces of the equation to come together,

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