What drives our personal growth? Our friends? Family?

Vitamins?

For that matter, what defines personal growth? Can we quantify it and how? It’s not like we’re robots. They won’t have to worry about this when the time comes.

Some argue experiencing discomfort leads to personal growth. You know your bounds, you cross them, and then your bounds move back.

Rinse and repeat.

But for some people, that very thing pushes them backwards, into a hole they might never again approach. Discomfort comes with different tolerance levels. Some have none, some have it all. Does that mean that not everyone has the ability for personal growth?

Of course not.

Realize first that growth in human behavior as we know it is theoretically incalculable. All those strings of causes and effects. They can be too convoluted to stomach, much less count. It is absolutely the case in the world we live in that some event on another continent can ruin our day. Or make it for that matter. How do you quantify that?

At the same time, we can strip it down. Throw away the thought of numbers and amounts. As useful as they can be in the form of bank accounts, or readers or followers, they aren’t useful. Not in measuring personal growth.

No, we need to think simply.

Personal growth is a very personal question.

And the question is: “Do I feel better today then I did yesterday?”