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Originally Posted by Marcus  Has Personal Development become too much of an industry? Is a shift in paradigm needed?
Personally I feel there is a lot of room for a fresh approach to how we go about developing ourselves and our lives. Many of the things that we try and address with personal development are generally symptoms of deeper-seated issues. Surely self-understanding is the only reasonable path towards effective personal change?
For a closer look at this, see: Personal Development or Self Development? |
The link doesn't work atm. 404.
Good reason to do as seeker5 said. But it's just one click so I don't mind, as long as it's not an attempt to get traffic, which in the case of someone who has been contributing to the forum for a while, is clearly not the case.
To answer your question, self-understanding is part of personal development. I don't see how you can achieve any significant level of personal development without improving your self-understanding, even if you're not specifically trying to do that. But in agreement with you I think that self-understanding is the place to start. How can you improve yourself if you don't know what you're improving?