Awaken The Hidden Wisdom of Your Heart w/ Mukta Mahajani: TIT59

03/18/19 • 58 min

Mukta Mahajani is an author and international speaker on Alternate Dispute Resolution methods with degrees in psychology, anthropology and law. She has been awarded with Star Youth Achiever Award by Global Youth Marketing Forum, Young Achiever Award by World HRD Congress among several other awards. Mukta has been writing on negotiation, dispute management and communication at the workplace for several years now. She has already published three books. Her latest book is The Code- Awaken the hidden wisdom of your heart. This book is about how We can resolve most of our problems by applying the wisdom of our heart. On this episode, Mukta shares about what does inner wisdom of heart means, how to be in control of our emotions, power of asking questions to oneself, developing negotiation skills and a lot more.

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Some Questions I Ask Mukta:

What do you mean when you say hidden wisdom of our heart?
How can one start looking inside not outside to find solution to their problems?
Any specific way that you use to reflect on your emotions?
Why do you call yourself the queen of setbacks? What are some of the setbacks you have had in your life?
Why negotiation skills are important in our life and workplace?
Why are the reasons for failed negotiations?

Time Stamps:

3:01 Mukta talks about her latest book The Code.
4:31 What does she mean when she say hidden wisdom of our heart?
06:25 How becoming open to learning can help one find solutions to the problem?
12:22 How reflection and journaling could be of great help on your journey to tapping into your inner potential.
18:57 The power of contemplation questions and choosing the right questions to yourself.
23:10 Self-help is not for those who are in denial.
29:15 She calls herself a queen of setbacks. The biggest setbacks on her journey.
36:05 How knowing your own reality and ability can be of great value while dealing with over-expectation from self?
42:25 Negotiation is to create a win-win situation.
47:30 Enlightening round

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Some Questions I Ask Mukta:

What do you mean when you say hidden wisdom of our heart?
How can one start looking inside not outside to find solution to their problems?
Any specific way that you use to reflect on your emotions?
Why do you call yourself the queen of setbacks? What are some of the setbacks you have had in your life?
Why negotiation skills are important in our life and workplace?
Why are the reasons for failed negotiations?

Time Stamps:

3:01 Mukta talks about her latest book The Code.
4:31 What does she mean when she say hidden wisdom of our heart?
06:25 How becoming open to learning can help one find solutions to the problem?
12:22 How reflection and journaling could be of great help on your journey to tapping into your inner potential.
18:57 The power of contemplation questions and choosing the right questions to yourself.
23:10 Self-help is not for those who are in denial.
29:15 She calls herself a queen of setbacks. The biggest setbacks on her journey.
36:05 How knowing your own reality and ability can be of great value while dealing with over-expectation from self?
42:25 Negotiation is to create a win-win situation.
47:30 Enlightening round

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Well that's exactly what happened with my guest Chetan Mahajan few years back. He was put behind the bars for the case against his employer.

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We chat about how Chetan landed up in jail, how was it like to be there, how he dealt with that phase of his life his story of moving to live in a village and a lot more.

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Some Questions I ask Chetan:

How did you land up in the jail?
What was the moment like when you landed up in jail?
How has that experience helped you in facing challenging situation in your life?
What is your definition of freedom?
Would you have discovered writing as your passion if you had not been to jail?

Time Stamps:

03:18 Chetan shares about his life in village and his writing.
05:15 He talks about what made him to live in village.
07:01 Chetan talks about the corporate roles that he has taken before starting on his own.
08:02 He shares how he landed up in jail for that case against his employer.
12:10 The confidence gained from going through this experience.
13:30 Chetan talks about the survival inside jail.
17:10 He shares how the journal he kept inside the jail later turned into a book.
19:48 Freedom is recognizing your constraints.
22:13 Dealing with people after coming outside jail.
23:32 Making a transition from Job to starting a Himalayan Writing Retreat.
29:21 Feeling proud and grateful for the past experience.
30:42 Message to people going through darkest phase in their life.
31:20 Enlightening Round