As readers of my posts will know, I often write about topics to do with personal growth and positive psychology, and my most recent book is about my insights about what leads people to live a good life. I think that prioritizing personal growth and development is the most rewarding and valuable way to approach life, so much more important than spending our time focused only on financial success or other forms of material wealth.

But the idea of personal growth gets bad press at times because critics think of it as a purely selfish.

I can understand that personal growth might sound like a selfish thing to pursue, but paradoxically, what humanistic therapists believe and what the research evidence points toward is that the more developed, emotionally mature and authentic we are as people, the more our gaze turns outwards to others. This is not because........

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