Mindful Monday - What is Personal Growth?

About This Talk

Personal growth rarely arrives in one big moment, Chris says. More often it comes one yard at a time, like a football game, through small lessons and moments of curiosity. He asks listeners to stay the learner rather than the expert, and to keep adding to their personal library until the change they’ve been building finally shows itself.

Key Ideas

• The more we learn, the more we realize how much there is yet to learn.
• Each lesson is like adding a book to your personal library, ready to open the next time a similar experience comes along.
• What Chris calls “the creep of change” builds a little at a time until, one day, a new perspective suddenly clicks.
• Personal growth takes steady, everyday work; it doesn’t work as well done in big chunks.
• You can be highly knowledgeable and still be a learner; in growing the organization, Chris learned the local teams are the experts in their markets.

“Personal growth is when we live in a constant state of lifelong curiosity where we are never the expert and we are always the learner.”