Hey, welcome back to the Personality Hacker Podcast. My name is Joel Mark Witt.

And I'm Antonia Dodge.

This week on the show we want to talk about personal growth.

Now we weave in personal growth messages and everything we talk about here a personality hacker because we think that personality types and the other models and maps that we talk about mental technologies, emotional technology, social technologies, they all, we think,

feed into a great access for personal growth.

We think that you can grow yourself

by using a lot of these tools as access points.

But I think we want to talk about personal growth a little bit differently this week.

And it's not about doing it, it's about when it's okay to not be doing it.

Because what can happen is that in our search for meaning as humans,

we have a tendency to find something that makes sense, a principle that helps us organize our world, and we

double down on it, and then we use it indiscriminately in all contexts.

And I think personal development and personal growth

can become one of those.

I think we sometimes have a tendency to religionize it.

And we might have actually talked about this

in previous podcasts, I'm not sure.

I don't think we've ever done a full podcast on it. talked about this in previous

I'm not sure I don't think we've ever done a full podcast on it but we wanted to talk

about when it's okay to stop looking for problems yeah you know one thing

as we do this the word woke came to my mind because I hear people

throwing this around a lot and I've always conflated personal growth with

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