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Originally Posted by DavidDavidDavid  Niki: Well, here we come up against the semanticist's dilemma -- where to draw boundaries when using words, which by definition limit and delineate.
If cavemen improving their hunting is "personal development," then you donating me a few hundred dollars would be "personal development" for both me and you! Two for the price of one!
What I mean is, sure, everything that a human being does can be thought of as "personal development" (or a lack thereof), then.
Joy: My own concept of what could be put under the "personal development" category goes beyond a "desire to feel better"...I'm not trying to one-up you here, please understand: after reading Krishnamurti (and I ain't a New Age guy at all), I have to agree that "desire" itself is "the problem"...if we're still at the level of wanting to feel better about ourselves, then we're not much evolved beyond toddlers -- only we have even bigger egos to feed (with better feelings about itself) and vastly increased intellectual capabilities to effect such conditions! (The French term "l'enfant terrible" comes to mind....) |
So what is your concept of the 'personal development' category then?
Personal development is IMO the development of the self. If the self is a hunter, and you become a better hunter then that is personal development.