Personal Growth Manifesto
July 2nd, 2005 by Steve Pavlina
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Here’s a list of 40+ simple tips for expanding your ability to experience personal growth.
An Incomplete Manifesto for Growth
The first two are:
1. Allow events to change you. You have to be willing to grow. Growth is different from something that happens to you. You produce it. You live it. The prerequisites for growth: the openness to experience events and the willingness to be changed by them.
2. Forget about good. Good is a known quantity. Good is what we all agree on. Growth is not necessarily good. Growth is an exploration of unlit recesses that may or may not yield to our research. As long as you stick to good you’ll never have real growth.
July 2nd, 2005 at 7:53 pm
Have you seen this fisking? A bit cynical, but also very funny in places.
July 4th, 2005 at 10:00 pm
That’s funny - but yeah, I tend to agree with the fisking. The Manifesto seems kind of cheesy and “designer oriented” to an engineer like me.
I mean “24. Avoid software.”! Come on…
July 5th, 2005 at 12:22 pm
Chuck:
As far as I can tell, “An Annotated Manifesto for Growth” is not a fisking. It’s filled entirely with vapid jibes and ad hominem arguments. I have no problem with critiques. In fact, personal growth, in my opinion, requires that, as Susan Scott would say, you “interrogate reality.” However, to paraphrase Frank Zappa, “if all you’re going to do is complain and not do anything to fix the problem, then sit down and shut up.”
July 6th, 2005 at 1:17 am
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