Otis Woodard

Personal Development = Increasing Mental Complexity

Personal Development

The Adult Development Model of Increasing Mental Complexity

 

We’re on the hunt to define what personal development actually is. Our approach? To look at it from four different perspectives. The primary reason you might want to know what personal development actually is…

When you understand the context, your personal development efforts will be much more effective.

In this post, we look at personal development through the perspective of “adult development.” In the prior post (here), we defined personal development in general terms. I’ve been using the analogy of walking around “personal development” and looking at it from four “scenic overlooks.” Here, we reach the first of the four scenic overlooks. Ready?  [Read more…] about Personal Development = Increasing Mental Complexity

Personal Development, Defined

Personal Development

A lot of people try to “do” personal development, but the majority don’t know what it is. Last week, I wrote here that I’m a man on a mission to change that. Why? Because I believe “not knowing what it is” is the primary reason so many people don’t get results from what their personal development efforts.

When we have a context for something we are doing, we can do it better and faster. Further, we stand a better chance of improvising and adjusting appropriately when things inevitably go wrong. And things do go wrong, right?  [Read more…] about Personal Development, Defined

My Mission: Help You Better Understand Personal Development

Personal Development

I’m on a mission. My mission (over the next month) is to help people who are interested in personal development get better, deeper, more sustainable results — faster — by actually knowing what personal development is.

THE MISSION

My mission, in a nutshell, is to help you…

Know what personal development is so you can be more effective at it. 

I have a secondary objective, too. I see people “jump in” to personal development without knowing what they are getting into. This can cause multiple issues (which we will get to later).

Before jumping at the chance to do personal development because everyone else is doing it, because it sounds cool, or whatever, it might be good to pause and to consider what it is you are getting yourself into. Forewarned is forearmed, as the old saying goes! [Read more…] about My Mission: Help You Better Understand Personal Development