What is Growth?

00:00:00 Speaker 1: Welcome to Mindset Growth podcast. I am Malika Murali, your host today. Let's see what is growth. The universe is growing, expanding all the time. All living organisms, human beings, organizations, nations, all entities grow. So what do we mean by growth? Growth is not just moving from one point to another? 00:00:24 Speaker 1: It is an upward moment, meaning a progress and improvement in one or more aspects. So what does it take to grow? Growth is also a process? It takes inputs and produces outcomes. Why is growth important for everyone? Why do people want to grow from? What William S Burroughs says when you stop growing, you start dying 00:00:50 Speaker 1: though. There are different views on this. I agree to this view. For one reason, I've heard some people say that they are stagnating. According to me, there is nothing called stagnation. When the whole universe is moving, the earth is moving, how can anyone stagnate? All of us are moving too? So we are either growing or falling. So there is nothing called stagnation here. It may be an illusion. 00:01:20 Speaker 1: Actually, if we are not growing, it means we are falling. I don't want to use the word dying. Here, I prefer to use the word falling, coming to our growth. Everyone likes to grow. But do we have a passion to grow? Because desire and passion are two different things. If we really need to grow, we need to have a passion. Ok. So what what it takes to grow? This depends 00:01:49 Speaker 1: on how important growth is for you. We saw that growth is a process. It is also a continuous process starting from our birth to death. We are growing, we will be growing and we should be growing in at least one or more aspects of our life. Let me today talk about personal growth. 00:02:11 Speaker 1: Personal growth involves physical growth, mental growth, social growth, emotional growth and spiritual growth. When we talk about physical growth, it is about taking care of our body. We live through this body. This body is a treasure given to us by the divine. 00:02:31 Speaker 1: We need to really treat it like a treasure through good self care habits, like taking healthy diet, good sleep and regular exercise. Mental growth is about your mind. What are your thought patterns? Are they aligned towards growth or not? How is your belief system? Do you have any limiting beliefs that impact your growth? Do you have any mental barriers for growth? Our thoughts and beliefs should be aligned with our passion for growth. 00:03:01 Speaker 1: Next is the social growth. Social growth is about social experiences. Our ability to interact with social circles, elevating self confidence. And self esteem. And more importantly, our communication in simple terms, we can say that it is the development of one's ability to interact with others. 00:03:23 Speaker 1: Next comes emotional growth. It is our ability to handle our emotions, the ability to regulate our emotions, nurture our emotions that facilitate your growth. Fifth and most important one is the spiritual growth. This is about your self awareness. Can you connect with your inner self? Do you know what kind of a person you are? What are your traits, your limitations, your habits, 00:03:51 Speaker 1: your behaviors and your abilities. Are you accepting yourself as you are? 00:03:58 Speaker 1: If we want to grow in our physical materialistic world, we need to grow in the above aspects of our life only then our external growth, meaning professional growth is possible without growing as a person, we cannot grow professionally, period. 00:04:17 Speaker 1: Personal growth requires a lot of self reflection and effort. Because unless we know where we are currently with respect to each of these aspects, we cannot truly grow in any of these aspects. As we always say, if we want to go somewhere, 00:04:33 Speaker 1: we need to know where we are currently. That is the first step. If we know that the rest of the steps will follow automatically the same thing applies to our growth. Also, do you know why people give so much of importance to growth? Because growth gives you freedom, growth improves your confidence, growth gives you motivation to move forward and foster growth makes you realize your highest potential growth improves positivity 00:05:04 Speaker 1: if growth is so important and so valuable, don't we need to pursue growth? Yes. Right. To pursue growth, we need to have a precious key element that is our mindset. Let us see more about this in our next episode. Until then buy and take care.