What is personal growth?
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What is personal growth?
- Take a moment to ask yourself why you are taking this class (aside from fulfilling degree requirements)
- What intrigues you about the idea of personal growth?
- Feeling a need for improvement?
- Wanting to be your best self?
- Suggestion of others?
- Not feeling content with the way you are?
- Human beings are often seeking to improve their current situation (through improvement of self, circumstances, activities, etc.)
Why?
What are we searching for?
- Direction? Happiness? Fulfillment? and?
- What do these things mean and why are they important?
- Direction
- Where am I going in life?
- Why am I on this path?
- Is your direction purposeful? (chosen by you)
- Is your direction passive? (a path you have been put on by someone else or by certain circumstances)
- Happiness
- What does it mean to be happy?
- How do we achieve happiness?
- Ask yourself, what makes me genuinelyhappy?
- Do you create happiness or does it happen to you?
- Fulfillment
- What does it take to be fulfilled?
- How do you know when you’ve achieved it?
- A feeling
- A combination of a sense of purpose and resulting happiness
- What else? Why are we here?
What are we searching for?
- Why are people susceptible to cults?
- Why are we willing to go to such extreme lengths to find what we are looking for?
- Sweat lodge example from text
- People will put their own health at risk in order to find purpose and belonging
- We are hard wired for connection
- We seek to belong
- It hurts to be disconnected, to feel alone or left out
- The pain of disconnection often outweighs perceived risks
- We seek out things that we think will give us purpose
- What gives you purpose?
What are we searching for?
- Have you ever read a self-help book?
- Why?
- We often think we need to improve ourselves
- This isn’t always bad, sometimes it helps to try to improve yourself
- We are comforted by knowing that others have struggled in similar ways
- Did it help? Why or why not?
- Research has found that self-help books are often not based in scientific research
- Self-help books are often vague in their prescription for change
- What are the keys to happiness?
- Are you happy with your life?
Difference Between Growth and Development???
- Take some time to think about the following:
- What do you think of when you hear these words?
- What is growth?
- What is development?
Are they the same? How do they differ?
Barriers to personal growth
- Now that we have started to define personal growth and what motivates the journey towards it:
- What gets in the way of personal growth?
- “If the consumption of these literary narcotics (self help books) were even remotely as helpful as their publishers claim, we would be a nation of serene, happy, well-adjusted people. It is clear, however, that serenity is not the dominant national mood.”
- Anxiety and depression are on the rise – but why?
- What gets in the way of your attempts to change?
Why don’t we change?
- Think: When was the last time you tried to make a change and failed?
- Write: What prevented you from making that change?
- Think: When was the last time you tried to make a change and succeeded?
- Write: What helped you make that change?
How do we change?
- There are three critical componentsto change
- Must be ready
- Is this the right time to make a change?
- Are you prepared to make a change?
- Must be willing
- Do you want to change?
- Are you being forced into change?
- Must be able
- Is this a change you can reasonable expect to be able to make?
- Are there limitations in your life that prevent you from being able to make this change?
What do you need to grow?
- Clear definition of the problem
- Investigations of attempted solutions
- Definition of concrete change to be achieved
- Formulation and implementation of plan
How do you achieve this?
- Exploration of the disadvantages of status quo
- Why will keeping things the same not work?
- Exploration of the advantages of status quo
- What is gained by keeping things the same
- Generating an optimism for change and growth
- Displaying an intention to grow and change
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