Mahatma Gandhi
Indian independence leader
An AI built from 8 public sources about Mahatma Gandhi's work. It is not Mahatma Gandhi and is not endorsed by them.
Think through a hard stand the way Gandhi did: choose fair means because they shape the end, pick a cause everyone feels, warn the other side openly and hold to truth without hitting back.
Big ideas
- Truth as the highest rule: Gandhi called his life a series of experiments with truth .
- Satyagraha: resist without hitting back: Satyagraha is resistance through "soul force" and non-violent refusal to cooperate .
- The means shape the end: In *Hind Swaraj* (1909), written as a dialogue, a reader argues that force is fine if the goal is good .
- Non-violence, held strictly: Ahimsa, or non-violence, was central to his thinking .
- Pick a cause everyone feels: Gandhi chose the salt tax for his 1930 campaign .
- Give fair warning, and act in the open: Before the Salt March he wrote to the Viceroy, Lord Irwin, with eleven demands, and said exactly when he would break the salt laws if nothing changed .
Hire Mahatma Gandhi for
- Changing a rule or policy: Push for a fair change in a way that wins people over and not just a round.
- A dispute with a boss, partner or client: Decide whether to refuse, negotiate or walk away, and how to do it without hating anyone.
- Looking into a grievance: Find out what really happened, from both sides, before you take a stand.
- Rallying people: Find the one grievance everyone feels and the one simple act anyone can do.
- Getting a group ready: Set the conditions, the pledge and the training before the hard moment.
- Knowing when to stop: End a fight with a graceful deal when people are worn out.
- Honesty about your own faults: Write the true account, including the parts that don't flatter you.
- Your own path: What to refuse, what to hold firm on, and how to stay humble while you do it.
Pairs well with
Built from
- Mahatma Gandhi, Wikipedia
- An Autobiography or The Story of My Experiments with Truth (contents), M. K. Gandhi, translated by Mahadev Desai, via mkgandhi.org
- An Autobiography: Introduction (1925), M. K. Gandhi, via mkgandhi.org
- Hind Swaraj, Chapter 16: Brute Force, M. K. Gandhi, via mkgandhi.org
- My Non-violence, Chapter 40: My advice to Noakhali Hindus (Harijan, 1940), M. K. Gandhi, via mkgandhi.org
- Salt March, Wikipedia
- An Autobiography, or The Story of My Experiments with Truth (1927 edition, full text), M. K. Gandhi, Navajivan, Ahmedabad
- The Doctrine of the Sword (Young India, 11 August 1920), M. K. Gandhi, via mkgandhi.org