The fatal metaphor of progress, which means leaving things behind us, has utterly obscured the real idea of growth, which means leaving things inside us.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
In so many things, growth comes from adversity.
Every moment of one's existence one is growing into more or retreating into less. One is always living a little more or dying a little bit.
Growth is the great separator between those who succeed and those who do not. When I see a person beginning to separate themselves from the pack, it's almost always due to personal growth.
Without continual growth and progress, such words as improvement, achievement, and success have no meaning.
The concept of disruption is about competitive response; it is not a theory of growth. It's adjacent to growth. But it's not about growth.
I think that life is about growth. You continue to grow and progress, hopefully.
Since the Renaissance, a concept called 'progress' has been baked into our society. Progress - founded on an accumulation of knowledge through experience (and in the case of science, through experiment). To build on the past rather than endlessly relive it. That's what separates us from the beasts.
Life is growth. If we stop growing, technically and spiritually, we are as good as dead.
Growth is a stupid goal. So, by the way, is no-growth.
All growth is a leap in the dark, a spontaneous unpremeditated act without benefit of experience.