What Stage Of Personal Development Are You In?

Knowing where we are helps us to improve more effectively

Personal development is an abstract topic, which means different things to different people. And there’s no singular strategy for measuring it.

What does “personal development” mean? The word implies that there’s a progression to it. So if that’s the case, in what stage are you now? I’ll briefly answer those questions in this article. Equipped with that information, you can improve yourself more effectively.

What is personal development?

When I talk about personal development, I’m talking about the activities that will make you a reliable human being. Someone you can count on.

To me, it’s the modern version of philosophy. In Ancient Rome, philosophy was mostly a practical pursuit. There were actual schools where you could study the art of becoming a better person.

Along the way, we’ve turned philosophy into an academic pursuit. It’s turned into an analysis of who said what, and why.

The word philosophy comes from the Greek word φιλοσοφία, philosophia, which means the love of wisdom. Historically, a philosopher was a practitioner of the knowledge they possessed.