What Do You Think About My Personal Development Definition?

[jakub_friso]

Personal Development is a field of study where the observed subject is human mind and it's internal, cognitive, mental processes - towards reality or another processes - thoughts.

Essential part of this study (what distincts it from, for example - psychology) is also development and execution/practice of a new cognitive processes in order to yield positive mental results, emotions and feelings. 

 

(of course, all the mental thoughts and images are only in human consciousness)

Edited December 29, 2016 by jakub_friso

[SFRL]

12 minutes ago, jakub_friso said:

Personal Development is a field of study where the observed subject is human mind and it's internal, cognitive, mental processes - towards reality or another processes - thoughts.

Essential part of this study (what distincts it from, for example - psychology) is also development and execution/practice of a new cognitive processes in order to yield positive mental results, emotions and feelings. 

 

(of course, all the mental thoughts and images are only in human consciousness)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I think personal development is 2/3  internal, cognitive, and mental. The other 1/3 is practical and physical. 

That's just an estimated guess you can adjust the percentages as you like. So I think it's more internal, cognitive, and mental. Still a large chunk will be practical and physical. 

The brain needs to come up with the idea first but there still needs to be action taken out in the world. 

[jakub_friso]

@STC Yes you are right that the ratio between those things you say is very subjective and relevant but, Did I hit the spot on defyning what personal development is, what is at it's core and what components does it bear? 

 

[SFRL]

@jakub_friso I did read over the second part of your definition. I think your definition of Personal Development work is good yes.

 

For what its worth to you: What I experience with Personal development work  is that the greatest results are being achieved by multiple smaller actions/parts that together are greater then the sum of its parts.  

For instance if I had just started working out and had done nothing else it probably would have had little effect on the quality of my life.

But now that I started working out, started cooking, eat more healthy, watch my finances, quit multi-media (Facebook), reading and self-study History, Psychology, and Philosophy. All these relatively little changes together are making a big impact on my life.

Basically now I sleep better, I am more energetic, generally more happy, and I have more vision and focus. 

 

Another thing is that I noticed that these habits grow their fruits over time. If for instance I eat a healthy meal once, it wont make much of a difference how I feel. If I eat healthy for a week I feel a little better. But when I eat healthy for months it has a very big effect. 

Same for quitting multi-media. One day without Facebook and you are still in that mindset. Months without Facebook and it really changes the quality of your thought patterns.

So what I am thinking is that quality Personal Development is not sudden and erratic but slow and stable.