The Story of My Experiments with Truth

Puntos clave

• Cumplir pequeñas promesas en momentos duros forja la gran voluntad
• Admitir un error de inmediato lo sana y transforma al otro
• Satyagraha resiste el dolor sin venganza hasta evidenciar la injusticia
• La sencillez es libertad: menos apegos, menos ataduras
• Usa tu propia vida para poner a prueba la verdad

Dentro de este bit

1. Una vida como experimento

   Most autobiographies polish the hero. Gandhi's does the opposite.

2. Pequeños votos forjan un gran carácter

   Before Gandhi left for London, his mother made him promise to avoid meat, wine and women. He kept the vow through loneliness, mockery and hunger, and he later felt that keeping it taught him more than any lecture.

3. Confesar un error da fuerza

   As a teenager Gandhi took a bit of gold from his brother's armlet to clear a debt. He could not bear the guilt, so he wrote a confession and handed it to his sick father, expecting anger.

4. Satyagraha nace en Sudáfrica

   A young lawyer with a first-class ticket is thrown off a train at Pietermaritzburg because of his skin. Gandhi spends a freezing night in the waiting room deciding whether to go home or stay and fight.

5. La sencillez como forma de vida

   Gandhi kept stripping his life down. He cut his own hair, washed his own clothes, cleaned latrines and moved his family into shared communities like Phoenix Settlement and Tolstoy Farm, where everyone worked with their hands.

6. Ponlo en práctica

   Make one small vow this week that you would normally break, such as no phone at dinner, and keep it for 7 days no matter what. Notice how much easier the second week feels.