Chaitanya Charan is a mentor, monk and speaker who has authored 25 books on applied mindfulness and purposeful living. He writes 3000 daily inspirational meditations and is an invited speaker at various prestigious universities and conferences around the world including TEDx, UNESCO, and Stanford. Effective speech as described in the Bhagavad Gita should be both sensible and sensitive - speaking the truth in a way that inspires people to come closer to the truth, rather than driving them away from it.

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Chaitanya Charan is a mentor, monk and speaker.
• Author of 25 books on applied mindfulness and
purposeful living
• Author of 3000 daily inspirational meditations.
• Invited speaker at TEDx, World Peace Conference,
UNESCO, Intel, Google, Microsoft, Salesforce, Stanford,
Princeton, Yale, Harvard, Massachusetts, and Cambridge

3. Effective Speech - Gita 17.16
Sensitive
Non-
agitating
Pleasing
Sensible
Truthful
Beneficial

4. Effective Speech = Sensible + Sensitive
Sensitive not sensible
Doctor doesn't give injection to
avoid hurting the child
Care only for others'
feelings, not their future
Sensible not sensitive
Doctor doesn't care to
anaesthetise before operating
Care only for others'
future, not their feelings

5. Extreme Political
Correctness
Moral posturing about
being sensitive at the
cost of being sensible

6. Extreme Logical
Correctness
People need to be
inspired, not just
instructed

7. Before using words as
surgical scalpels …
Consent
Non-surgical intervention
Anesthesia
Pain medication

8. Effective Speech
Speak the Truth in a way that
inspires people to come
closer to the Truth, not
drives them away from it

9. Effective Speech = Sensible + Sensitive
Sensitive not sensible
Doctor doesn't give injection to
avoid hurting the child
Care only for others'
feelings, not their future
Sensible not sensitive
Doctor doesn't care to
anaesthetise before operating
Care only for others'
future, not their feelings