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Self-Improvement And Self-Discovery Work Together
We live between rigidity and malleability. It means that both self-discovery and self-improvement matter.
- Self-discovery matters because the goals you set, and the life philosophy you hold, needs to be informed by the parts of yourself that tend to be fixed.
- Self-improvement is important because we are able to modify many of our traits. Self-improvement also leads to self-discovery. The more you experiment and strive, the more you learn about yourself.
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Rigid Vs Malleable: Exploring the Ability to Change Ourselves
How much we can change ourselves can be explored by looking at the extremes.
- At one extreme (Rigidland ), our nature is fixed and unchanging. No amount of effort or experience will change your intelligence, personality, and talents. Change is only possible in superfi...
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Arguments in Favor of Rigidity
Studies involving identical and fraternal twins (even reared apart) showed that most parts of our nature are partly heritable. Intelligence may be as high as 80% heritable, but 50% is the standard number of many of the domains, including personality.
However, being heritable isn't ...
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Arguments in Favor of Malleability
While genetic research stands out in favour of rigidity, there is contrary evidence.
- One is that most psychology studies are done using Western undergraduates. This means that while we think we measure universal human functioning, we may be measuring culturally-specific ones.
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Key concepts: internal success, true purpose, self-exploration, personal growth, passion, values, aspirations, fulfillment, meaningful contribution.
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What is Self-Improvement?
Let's define self-improvement. The definition of self-improvement is pretty self-explanatory: Self-improvement is the improvement of one's knowledge, status, or character by one's own efforts. It's the quest to make ourselves better in any and every facet of life.
Self-improvement almost al...
Why we desire self-improvement
We are all drawn to the possibility of becoming our "best self" and work towards confidence and a great career.
Bestselling self-improvement books add credibility to this idea because they are often authored by highly successful people who assure us that we can also find the same s...
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