The Key Ingredients for Personal & Intellectual Growth

As things change, parts of you stay constant.

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Things move so fast, don’t they? The world around us is moving quicker than ever before. In more ways than one:

• You as a person. With every minute that passes you become different. You’re completely different from the person you see in a year-old photo. You have different ideas, desires, traits and so much more.
• Your environment. Not just the ever-changing technology that we use every day. But the people and experiences we have. Friends come and go. New opportunities are there for the taking. Did you know the average person has 12 completely different jobs during their life?

If you blinked, you might miss these changes. To avoid getting left behind, most of us try and keep up with them: frightened of missing opportunities, we work hard, trying to utilize every second of every day. Evident from the fact that up to 85% of Americans work over 40 hours a week.

That emphasis on change leaves little room to stop and work on yourself – it prevents us from focusing on our mental and personal growth.

Just like a plant, there are essential ingredients that you need in order to grow. To thrive as a person, you need to create the right conditions and mentality…