Something is becoming evident to me in the articulation of my work.
What’s evident to me is that most of it is hiding in plain sight, often within everyday articles that you read online, yet most people aren’t aware of what it is because it goes by many different names.
For example, I’ve been calling it vertical development but that’s just one name of many it goes by. It could also be called leadership development, ego development, adult development, or even developmental psychology.
I’ve seen it hiding in other forms as well, like as creativity applied to yourself, liminal thinking, or even as Joseph Campbell’s Hero’s Journey.
Yet what these really are all about at their core is growth and development.
Yet what’s difficult and confusing for people to grasp is that the focus of your growth and development changes at each stage of your development because your needs and values change as you grow and evolve.
So the focus of one person at an earlier stage of their growth and development will differ to the focus of another person at a later stage of their growth and development.
In other words, as you grow and develop, your view or lens of your world and yourself are transformed and evolve in turn.
For example, when you’re a young adult, knowledge may be the end-all and be-all for you, as you may believe that knowing everything allows you have control and certainty over your life.
Yet as you get older and are fortunate enough to grow and develop, you begin to realize that continually gaining and accumulating knowledge to know everything is a fallacy, an illusion. You can’t know everything. It’s impossible.
So it becomes less about gaining and accumulating knowledge and more about transforming your relationship to it and life as a whole. This is the difference between information and transformation. Your relationship to what you know changes and it gives you a much larger perspective and context to life in the process.
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