what is growth?

Author

Jay Topp
March 01, 2024

Hey friend, 

The pursuit of growth seems quite popular right now.

From traditional education to homeschooling, coaching, online business, biohacking, inner child work, therapy, ice baths, self help podcasts, psychedelics, somatic work, 75 hard, yoga, mindfulness, health coaching, body building, network marketing, dating & relationship programs, Bryan Johnson types, hillsong, Tony Robins, the whole Tate movement, all the make money online offers.

Theres more than I could possibly list and they are all seeking the same thing… growth.

But this isn’t a new phenomena. 

People having been seeking the same thing since time began.

  • Ancient pilgrims exist in every culture and religion

  • Alchemists

  • Sufis

  • Greeks pursuit of wisdom & truth

  • The Egyptians and all the esoteric wisdom hidden there

  • Native south americans and all the traditional, ceremony they pursued.

  • Monks & meditators

  • You could say religion itself is an attempt to grow.

There is a vast, long history of all the rigour, ceremonies and experiences people put themselves through in the name of personal growth. 

It seems as though everyone is seeking it it one way or another. And always has been.

Many are selling it, and everyones buying it. Why?

What even is growth?

Is it just some self-absorbed-renovation-project on oneself? 

Is it an attempt to get closer to some ideal you hold of what you would like to be? Or who you were told that you should be?

Are we trying to connect to something higher?

Is it a futile attempt to fulfil a void that cannot be filled?

Or is it the native process of all living things?

If the whole world is seeking it (consciously or otherwise), its probably worth asking the question…

What even is growth?

More on this soon.

-Jay

Jay Topp is a 24 year old writer, marketer, film maker & self-led educator originally from Australia, now based between Latin America & Europe. You can see his films here. Instagram here. And his business website here.

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