YOU HAVE LAVA INSIDE YOU

YOU HAVE LAVA INSIDE YOU Without the Right Mentor,
Your Greatest Potential May Never Erupt How much of your real
potential have you actually tested? Most people judge themselves
by what they have already achieved. The weight they have
already lifted. The business they have already built. The pressure
they have already handled. The skills they already possess. But
what if your past performance is not your capacity? What if it is
only the portion of your capacity that life has demanded from you
so far? In YOU HAVE LAVA INSIDE YOU, Dr. Abhishek Gilara
shares deeply personal lessons from fitness, family, management,
business, spirituality and mentorship to explore one powerful
idea: Extraordinary capacity often remains hidden until the right
person challenges us to discover it.
From lifting 25 kg in each hand under the guidance of his longtime fitness coach Megha Kapoor,
to watching his 74-year-old father drive himself through heavy traffic because an urgent factory
responsibility could not wait; from Rahul Jain’s lessons on developing the subconscious through
consistent management learning, to the influence of Tony Robbins, Marshall Goldsmith and his
spiritual gurus; and from personal ambition to Savji Dholakia’s example of building at enormous
scale while contributing to society and the environment—this book connects seemingly different
experiences into one philosophy. Potential is the lava. Discipline creates the pressure. Consistency
creates the heat. The right mentor finds the opening. Action causes the eruption. But the book
goes one step further. Achievement is not the final purpose of potential. Once your lava erupts,
what will you do with the energy? Will it serve only you? Or will it strengthen your family, your
organisation, your people, your community and future generations? This is a book about refusing
to live permanently inside yesterday’s limits. It is about finding mentors who see more in you. It
is about becoming courageous enough to test yourself. And ultimately, it is about turning hidden
capacity into contribution and contribution into legacy. You have lava inside you. Don’t leave it
underground.