Rapid Personal Growth

Evolution is a much more powerful strategy than personal growth.

Learning more, working harder, becoming faster, becoming smarter, are all examples of personal growth.

The more a person reads self-help material, the more they may learn.

The more effort they apply in their lives, the better their results may be.

But with effort, honesty and courage, the self-helper may be expanding his/her limits, but what is limiting him usually remains the same.

What if he/she could simply remove his/her limits? The answer is, he/she would naturally evolve.

Growth is more linear, whereas evolution is more nonlinear.

Growth is slower, whereas evolution is faster.

Growth is more of a superficial change, whereas evolution is more of a fundamental change.

Goldratt's Theory of Constraints says everything can be viewed as a system and that systems are comparable to chains.

The strength of the chain depends on the weakest link (or the 'constraint').

Applying effort and resources to all the other links of the chain do not do ANYTHING to strengthen the chain.

So one could grow the chain by adding bigger links or more links, but unless the weakest link is strengthened, the chain will be no stronger.

We are systems and our managers are our minds.

Many of our efforts to grow our minds and ourselves are not oriented around our mind's constraint or weakest link, and thus produce few if any results.

The problems that we face in life can be reduced to one or two core problems.

Once those core problems have been eliminated, the symptoms also disappear or change.

Of course, then there is a new constraint or a new weakest link, but with a constraints-perspective to growth, our growth is more like evolution than growth.

What stops you in life?

It is the same thing that stops everyone else - inner conflicts.

Our core inner conflicts are what limits and controls our self-guidance systems.