This is a set of features, principles, features and abilities that determine the level of usefulness of the system and the success of its interaction in various areas.

They are part of a person's character, a certain subset of features that allow them to most effectively respond to certain influences, act and successfully achieve goals in a particular subject area. More details about the character and features are written in the method Definition of character and temperament.

The presence of certain personal qualities is the most important sign of success, and their development is the main way to improve it. Let us consider in more detail the main qualities of a successful person and the methods of their development.

Intelligence

This is a complex model of system behavior that uses consciousness, preconsciousness and subconsciousness to organize, manage, control and plan activities, store and use perceived and synthesized information in memory, personal development and realization of destiny, limited by conscience.

Allows you to identify actions and resources based on personal experience and generated ideas and combine them into a plan to achieve goals.

With a low level of intelligence development, a person is not able to engage in useful activities, cannot organize, control and manage it. He is also unable to consciously set goals, draw up a plan to achieve them, overcome obstacles and act in their direction.

With a high level of intelligence development, a person completely controls his life, determines the optimal ways of development and achievement of goals, realizes himself, engages in creativity and continuously self-realizes.

Increases success by identifying the best way to achieve goals and the best ways to overcome obstacles.

It develops through the accumulation of experience and the improvement of such abilities as self-awareness, goal setting, planning, imagination, etc.

This quality is discussed in more detail in the Generation of useful ideas and method.

self-discipline

It is the ability to start and complete actions, get expected results and achieve goals regardless of the obstacles that arise.

Obstacles can be problems, needs, harmful influences, laziness, fear, lack of motive or incentive, and so on. Moreover, the vast majority of them are internal.

It requires the presence of will in order to start acting, perseverance to bring things to the end and determination to focus only on things that bring you closer to the goal.

Will

It is the ability to consciously initiate, manage, and organize actions to achieve goals.

It manifests itself at the beginning of the implementation of actions to overcome inertia and when obstacles arise.

It allows you to become independent of the opinions and manipulation of other people, and act only on the basis of personal decisions, i.e. get rid of reactivity in interaction and become more proactive.

The speed of making and implementing decisions depends on willpower, which is influenced by self-discipline, independence, determination, self-confidence and courage. The better these qualities are developed, the greater the willpower.

With a low level of development of the will, a person does not begin to act independently, but only reacts to external influences. Cannot overcome obstacles, but simply stops reaching the goal or switches to another goal.

With a high level of development of the will, a person acts only on the basis of personal experience and goals. He immediately begins to act when a decision is made to achieve a goal or when obstacles appear on the way to it.

Increases success by overcoming more and more difficult obstacles, doing more and more difficult tasks and achieving more and more useful goals.

It develops similarly to self-discipline - with the help of a progressive complication of the actions performed and the goals achieved.

perseverance

This is the ability to continue and complete the implementation of the initiated actions to achieve the goal, regardless of the obstacles that arise.

Often used in defeat, when you need to "get back on your feet" and continue to move towards the goal.

Perseverance, getting things done, and successfully achieving goals increases motivation and self-confidence.

With low perseverance, a person completes few things, and only those in which there were no obstacles. If at least something interferes, then the person will immediately refuse to perform it or switch to another matter.

With high perseverance, a person completes all things, receives the necessary results and overcomes with the help of the will any obstacles on the way to the goal.

Increases success by completing all planned tasks, obtaining expected results and achieving all set goals.

It also develops with the help of step-by-step complication of the actions performed and the goals achieved.

purposefulness

This is the ability to concentrate only on achieving the current goal, not being distracted by unimportant things, not succumbing to laziness and spontaneous desires.

With low purposefulness, a person is often distracted from the current business and goals, begins to do other things that are not related to the current goal. This significantly increases the time and cost to achieve the goal.

With a high sense of purpose, a person performs only those things that bring them closer to the goal, and spends personal resources only on such things.

Increases success by setting and successfully achieving increasingly complex goals, concentrating only on the most important ones, and minimizing the cost and time of things that are not related to the goal - time wasters.

It develops with the help of conscious concentration on the planned business and a gradual increase in the duration of this concentration. For example, at first you can concentrate only on the current business for 10 minutes, then 15, 20, 25 ... And then an effective break is taken for 5-10 minutes for a quick recovery.

At the same time, it is important to find the optimal balance between concentration in action and rest in order to maintain maximum efficiency, not overwork and not burn out.

Intensity

This is the ability to concentrate on one goal for a certain period and make every effort to achieve it as soon as possible.

Allows you to speed up the process of achieving the goal, but requires more resources per unit of time, which is usually a justified measure for faster results.

Prevents activities in a relaxed, calm state, for the sake of enjoying the process, which significantly slows down the achievement of goals and increases costs.

At low intensity, a person can act very slowly, take frequent breaks, waste resources without benefit for current goals, which worsens the condition and significantly increases the time to achieve the goal.

At high intensity, a person performs actions at the maximum speed for himself and with the optimal expenditure of personal resources. Makes a minimum of breaks only for rest and recuperation, and is not distracted by other, useless things.

Increases success by achieving goals faster, albeit at a higher but recouped cost.

It develops with the help of a progressive increase in the period of concentration and the maximum application of efforts on one goal.

Confidence

This is the state of the system in which it has knowledge about its own response and the reaction of another system when a certain impact is exerted.

Appears during development and awareness as a result of obtaining true knowledge about oneself, one's actions and their consequences. Minimizes uncertainty, stress, fears and risks.

It is necessary to understand the results that will be obtained when performing certain actions and having an impact on oneself or the environment. Helps to take the first step towards the goal, reduces the risk of harmful effects and consequences that can worsen the condition.

Self-confidence is manifested in speech, appearance, clothing, gait, physical condition.

With low confidence, a person may spend a lot of time determining the safe and beneficial impact they can have on themselves or other systems in order to achieve a particular goal. At the same time, there is a high probability of harm, which can worsen the state and relations with other systems.

With high confidence, a person can quickly determine the necessary impact, which is guaranteed to lead to the desired consequences and give the expected results. At the same time, the risk of harm and deterioration of relations will be minimal.

Increases success by determining exactly which influences will be beneficial and which will be harmful, which helps the will to take the first step towards the goal, which is often the most difficult, because. you need to overcome your inertia and internal obstacles.

It develops with the help of awareness of oneself and the environment, one's abilities, a positive attitude towards oneself, the belief that if one performs the right actions, one will definitely achieve success.

organization

It is the ability to streamline personal activities and determine the importance of goals and activities to increase the likelihood of success and minimize costs.

It manifests itself when a large number of disorderly, chaotic tasks appear, the implementation of which may be inefficient due to the waste of resources on less important tasks. Such cases are described in detail, the connections between them are determined, their importance and usefulness for self-realization and achievement of the goal of life are determined.

The main means for the organization are planning and systematization of its activities. To do this, you can use various systems of lists, folders, categories, etc. You can also delegate the execution of important tasks to more competent specialists. More tools for organizing are described in the method Organization of personal goals and affairs. You can also start using a powerful, free online organizer right now.

With low organization, a person has many things to do, the usefulness and dependence of which is unknown to him. He makes decisions chaotically, usually depending on his mood and desire to do the most interesting, but not necessarily useful thing.

When a person is highly organized, all important goals and deeds are described in detail, structured and organized into a single system. With its help, he can quickly find the information he needs and make the right decisions depending on current conditions and available resources. But this system requires spending additional resources to create it and update the information in it.

Increases success by having a clear idea of ​​what needs to be done to achieve the goal, and quickly obtaining the necessary information to make decisions and take actions.

It develops with the help of a progressive complication of the system of organizing activities for self-realization and continuous updating of information in it. This is facilitated by the development of purposefulness and self-discipline.

Courage

This is the ability to maintain the current state or improve it when danger or fear arises that impedes the implementation of actions and the achievement of the set goal.

Fear is a good helper for determining the correctness of the decision being made. The more a person is afraid to do something and it definitely will not bring harm, the more useful this thing is for his self-realization. Then you need to courageously take the first step, which is usually the most difficult, and then everything will go like clockwork.

With low courage, a person can completely stop acting when fear arises, even if its cause does not cause harm. At the same time, he can switch to other, less useful goals, abandoning those that cause fear, but can bring more benefit (organize a company, take a higher position, build a house, etc.)

With high courage, a person overcomes any fear, and when it arises, he begins and completes all things to achieve the goal. At the same time, the stronger the fear, the more energy it gives to perform actions.

Increases success by overcoming the increasingly strong fears that arise when achieving increasingly complex, great and rewarding goals.

It develops with the help of awareness of the sources of fear, determination of their harmfulness, ways to minimize it and a step-by-step increase in the complexity of the actions performed and the goals achieved that cause fear.

Problem solving

This is the ability to acquire the missing resources to perform certain actions and overcome obstacles to achieve goals.

Imagination

This is the ability to create mental images in the mind regardless of the environment, combine them with real objects, simulate their interaction and determine the possible consequences.

It is used to generate original ideas that can be implemented in the form of material (new house, car, tool...) or ideal (knowledge, theories, processes, methods...) objects.

It is used by the system in creative activity to create new, unique objects used by itself or the environment and improving the state of the system, environment or supersystem.

With a low imagination, a person uses only the information that he perceived from the outside: he saw, heard, tried. This allows you to use only what already exists in your activity.

With high imagination, a person continuously forms mental images of new and existing systems, connects them together, models their interaction and evaluates the usefulness of the consequences of this. If the image is evaluated as useful, then a person can implement it in the real world by creating something new, improving the existing one, or destroying the harmful one.

Increases success by identifying new possible states, original ways to achieve goals and overcome obstacles.

It develops through the accumulation of knowledge about existing systems, the expansion of the paradigm and the progressive complication of the formed mental images of real and possible systems.

Generation of ideas

This is the ability to use the imagination to form new ideas based on personal experience and existing ideas.

With a low ability to generate ideas, a person uses only patterns and proven methods to achieve goals. Can use technologies that someone invented, but adapt them poorly to their activities, so they are of little use.

With a high ability to generate ideas, a person easily invents and implements new, unique objects, invents new tools and methods. He develops new and improves existing technologies and implements them in his activities, which allows him to achieve personal goals more successfully and more efficiently.

Increases success by identifying original paths to goals, using new technologies and creating unique objects that can give an advantage or be used as personal resources.

Develops through the accumulation of experience, the continuous search for more appropriate ways to perform actions and achieve goals, the development and implementation of more complex and useful technologies, tools and methods. This improves the imagination.

Creativity

This is a set of system abilities that allow generating fundamentally new, original ideas and using previously unused means to overcome obstacles and achieve goals.

Allows you to find original tools to perform certain actions that no one has tried to use yet.

It can lead to both a decrease and an increase in the cost of achieving the goal, but, as a rule, the speed of performing actions increases significantly when using the original tool.

It is the main means for creative activity, creating something new, unique and improving the environment.

With low creativity, a person can only perform actions based on known solutions, use only proven technologies, and never apply something new.

With high creativity, a person tries for each new business, new goal to find a more suitable path than the one that is known. He generates many ideas for determining the best ways to succeed. We are constantly looking for, creating and implementing new technologies in our activities.

Increases success by creating new, unique systems that can provide benefits, achieving goals in an original, unconventional way, which can be less costly and faster than known ones.

It develops with the help of a constant search for new ways and means of performing actions and a progressive complication of goals achieved in an original way, and not a template one. This is facilitated by an improvement in imagination and the ability to generate ideas.

self-awareness

This is the ability to analyze and evaluate your current state, thought processes in the mind and.

Allows you to compare the current state with the desired one, determine the difference and, using intelligence, determine the actions to move into it.

It also helps to identify internal motives that give energy to start and complete actions.

With low self-awareness, a person uses only external information to make a decision. He is very susceptible to the opinions of other people, does not take into account his thoughts and emotions.

With high self-awareness, a person makes decisions only on the basis of personal thoughts,. He clearly imagines what he wants, what goal to achieve and easily determines what he lacks for this.

Increases success by determining the difference between the current and target states, using internal motives, thoughts and emotions.

It develops with the help of periodic concentration on thoughts and emotions, determining their essence, causes and consequences, and progressive complication of the goals achieved, which are increasingly different from the current state.

These are the most significant qualities of a successful person, the development of which allows you to successfully achieve any goals.

And many of the qualities connected to each other and the development of some improves others. For example, will, perseverance, and determination improve self-discipline, while courage and confidence improve determination.

The development of these qualities and skills allows you to subconsciously, automatically interact, quickly and adequately respond to external influences and adjust your activities depending on new opportunities.

Let us consider in more detail how any of the qualities can be developed so that it influences life as much as possible and helps to achieve success.

Method of development of personal qualities

A sufficiently high level of development of personal qualities is necessary for successful self-realization. You can improve several qualities at the same time. It is better to choose those qualities that are most useful for achieving current goals, and concentrate just to improve them.

All these qualities are innate - every person has them. But initially they are passive state and practically do not affect the activity. In order for them to be more useful in achieving goals, they need to be continuously developed.

The main thing in the development of qualities is the understanding that they cannot improve instantly. They should be developed progressively and regularly depending on current goals. And when development stops, they will deteriorate, degrade.

The improvement of any quality is based on a gradual, step-by-step complication of the actions that are performed with its application. The following method can be used to develop qualities:

1. Need choose quality and discover about it, as much as possible, so that a clear understanding of it appears: its definition, how it manifests itself, what happens to the state, how you react to external influences, how you influence the environment, etc. To do this, you can use their description in this chapter and search for additional information on the Internet.

For example, intensity is the ability to concentrate on a specific goal and make every effort to achieve it as soon as possible. Allows you to speed up the process of achieving the goal, but it is more expensive, which is usually a justified measure for faster results. Prevents doing activities in a relaxed state, for the sake of enjoying the process, which significantly slows down the achievement of goals and increases costs.

2. Describe ideal level development of this quality by 10 points out of 10: what can this quality be for me personally, what will my behavior be like, in what situations can it be used ...

For example, apply when performing any business. Act as quickly as possible, do not be distracted by extraneous matters. Have a supportive environment. Take some time to analyze cases, find out if it will help achieve the goal. If there is an intention to fulfill it, then resolutely proceed to it. Set deadlines for doing things. Determine in advance the reward for its completion on time.

3. Determine current level development of this quality on a scale from 1 to 10. To do this, just ask yourself: “How satisfied am I with this quality in myself on a scale from 1 to 10” and listen to the emotions that arise, they will prompt a subjective, but the most accurate answer.

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4. Describe a few simple steps, actions that can be performed to develop this quality by 1 point. Describe what exactly can be done, in what situations, what to use for this, etc., so that the quality improves a little. At the same time, it is enough to be based on personal experience and your idea of ​​\u200b\u200bthis quality in an ideal form.

For example, before starting a task, determine its term and reward. Organize a supportive environment so that nothing gets in the way of doing it.

5. Then describe the steps to improve the quality by another 1 point, and another 1, and another ... And so to reach such steps that will improve the quality to 10 points out of 10, i.e. to the ideal level.

For example, perform actual actions at maximum speed (walk fast, type fast, talk fast, etc.). Spend some time analyzing the case, answering the question “Why do it?”. Immediately do the things that are necessary to achieve the goals and that you yourself want to do. Delegate things that you don't want to do. Act decisively so as not to miss opportunities.

6. Select the steps from which you can to begin quality development soon and start to follow these steps.

For example, setting deadlines and rewards, organizing a supportive environment, and not being distracted by extraneous matters.

7. Periodically repeat this method and update your answers.

This method should be done for each quality that is useful to develop in the near future for current purposes. You can make a list of qualities, draw a scale next to it and mark the current level of this quality on it. For example, like this:

Periodically, for example, once a week, you can update this list, note the current level of development and analyze the dynamics of changes. You can choose the quality that has become the highest priority and perform those actions that will help improve it.

This will help determine which qualities are currently lacking or which need to be improved to achieve current goals.

You can hang this list in several prominent places, regularly look through it, remember those steps that it was decided to take first to improve them and perform them under suitable conditions.

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The topic of personal growth is on everyone's lips these days. A lot of books, various trainings, etc. are dedicated to her. There are people who understand this term as gaining experience and knowledge, increasing the level of intelligence, but at the same time, such individuals may have problems with communication and self-esteem. Therefore, self-development is a deeper concept that covers all aspects of human life.

How to start self-development?

I must say that this process goes on continuously and without the active participation of a person, because he grows up, “fills bumps”, draws conclusions and thus his inner qualities also change. But active personal growth is a somewhat different work, assuming that a person consciously sets a goal for himself in life and goes towards it, he makes an effort to achieve it and changes his beliefs for it. This path is impossible without self-improvement, daily victories over yourself and your fears. In the psychology of self-development, personal growth is called the road to happiness and.

What is needed to achieve them? Here are some of the steps:

1. Love yourself with unconditional love. Do not blame for mistakes, do not humiliate. Instead, give yourself a chance that next time you will try to do better, change something that will help you look at yourself with different eyes.
2. Take responsibility for your life. Many blame their failures on anyone, not realizing that this is the position of a child, not an adult. It is necessary to start doing at least something without the filing of loved ones. For example, independently find another job, take any training courses or climb the top of Everest. Yes, it will be scary, but it is precisely behind that new and unknown that something will open up that will contribute to personal growth.
3. Self-development of a person involves the rejection of everything negative that prevents you from making life better. For some, these are bad habits, but for others, a circle of friends. You need to believe in yourself and that life can be wonderful, you just need to take the first step towards it.
4. Self-development for women is to refuse any criticism of someone, including yourself. There are no perfect people, and when the desire to correct someone wakes up, you just need to ask, how will this make your own life more joyful and happier?

There are a lot of such aspects, but the main thing is not to put off your own life for tomorrow. It is too short and it is important to live it here and now, and in such a way that later it would not be too bitter for the aimlessly flown years.

There is absolutely no doubt that many people are interested in the topic of self-development and personal growth. Most, of course, understand why this is necessary. However, there are people who do not clearly understand the goals of these processes, even being involved in them, not to mention those who are not interested in such things at all. In fact, developing one's potential is of great importance in everyday life and can offer significant benefits to every person. Let's take a look at the features of the process of a person's development of his personality and answer the questions: why is this needed at all and what does it give?

To begin with, it is worth clarifying what self-development and personal growth are.

Self-development - it is a process that is conscious and carried out by a person without the assistance of any external forces, aimed at developing his potential and realizing himself as a person. Self-development always implies the presence of clear goals, certain beliefs and attitudes.

Personal growth - it is, firstly, a psychological concept used by various directions. And secondly, the process of cultivating by a person the special qualities of his personality and increasing the level of his personal efficiency and productivity in order to increase personal potential and achieve a higher life result in all its manifestations.

The concepts of "self-development" and "personal growth" can be considered identical to each other, because they, by and large, pursue the same goals. But such goals as increasing potential, developing qualities, etc. look rather abstract to serve as a worthy definition of why a person needs to develop himself and grow personally. Let's try to specify them.

So, the main goals of self-development and personal growth, as a rule, are:

It should also be said that a person engaged in self-development masters, among other things, a number of very useful skills in life, namely: the basics and time management, learns the basics, and also learns to think through their achievement and, ultimately, achieve. The fact is that a person who cares about his all-round development automatically comes to acquaintance with a variety of various sources of different knowledge: audio and video materials, seminars, courses, Internet resources and, of course, with interesting and developed personalities. By the way, meeting and communicating with new people is another advantage of self-development. This may well not be the goal, but when a person begins to develop, he begins to “grow” out of the circle of those with whom he communicated before. As a result, there is a need for new people. And it is realized in many cases spontaneously, because. a person with a certain level of development begins to attract people with the same level or superior to him, and he himself is attracted to them.

And the last thing I would like to touch upon is that personal growth not only stimulates the development of a person’s potential, but also contributes to the harmonization of his life, in general. A developing person, along with the fact that he learns a lot of information that allows him to improve his, so to speak, external life, ennobles and enriches his inner and spiritual world, nourishes him with all sorts of knowledge about any spiritual aspects of life, teachings and practices. He begins to look at the world with completely different eyes, to see in it what he had not seen before, to notice what others do not notice, to appreciate every moment he lives, relatives, loved ones, friends more. As a result, his whole life becomes more harmonious, bright, full and happy.

Based on all this, we can conclude that self-development should be done by everyone and everyone who wants to become a “better self”, to maximize their intellectual, spiritual, creative and personal potential, as well as change their life or just make it better.

Develop, friends, grow as individuals and improve yourself! Take the first real step towards yourself and, believe me, then you simply won’t be able to stop.

Personal growth is a search for oneself and realization. This is a movement forward towards your destination. This is a constant self-improvement and self-development of the individual. These are daily victories over yourself, over your fears and other negative emotions. Personal growth is the path to happiness and success.

In order to make yourself happy, it is first of all important to take responsibility for your life.

It's also important to believe in yourself. Faith is your best assistant, your inspiration. Faith is an essential condition for personal growth.

And the last one is your activity. Without action and self-discipline, you will not achieve the desired result.

As a strict scientific concept, "personal growth" has a difficult fate: different scientific schools put into it significantly different content, and psychological practice exploits it, in principle, little concern for the rigor of terminology.

That personal growth that is heard in popular books and in training advertising is, in principle, not a scientific concept, but a popular brand. Books are published devoted to (supposedly) personal growth, trainings are conducted (supposedly) for personal growth, while in fact books and trainings may not be entirely about personal growth. About what? About personal life, relationships, what to do with depression, how to find a job. All questions are important, vital, and books and trainings can be useful, only they can be attributed to the topic of personal growth only with the broadest interpretation of the term. And why they are all released under the heading "personal growth" is a marketing question. "Personal growth" is a fashionable concept, and under such a cap all these goods are sold better.

In modern psychology, personal growth is understood primarily as a measurable fact, as a result of significant and positive changes in a person's personality. Whatever we call it - personal growth, personal growth, personal development, personal growth and development - all these are, first of all, positive changes in a person's personality, strengthening the core and increasing the potential of the individual. It is not always clear what happened to a person, but in some cases it can be said that personal growth has occurred with a person. A person has become - different, he has become better at managing his life, has become stronger, deeper and inner richer. The main characteristics of personal growth and development are its focus, activity and scale.

V.L. wrote well about personal growth. Levy (from the book "Where to Live. A Man in Chains of Freedom"): "What is personal growth? If a person has more: - interests, and with it incentives to live - the meaning of life, - the ability to analyze - to distinguish one from the other, - the ability to synthesize - to see the connections of events and phenomena, - understanding people (including oneself), and with that the ability to forgive, - inner freedom and independence, - responsibility assumed voluntarily, - love for the world and people (for oneself including), then this means that a person grows personally. Synonyms: mentally, spiritually. "

It is convenient to talk about personal growth and development by comparing personal growth trainings (personal development trainings) and business trainings, business-professional trainings. If participants learn knowledge and specific skills that are relevant to business, and the trainer does not touch the participants’ personalities, does not discuss their values ​​and lifestyle, does not affect their attitude towards themselves and people, this is business training in its purest form. The participant learned how to advertise goods more efficiently and build working salary schemes, the participant mastered the skill of displaying goods and learned the text of a competent presentation - he can be more efficient in business, but as a person he remained the same, the tasks of personal growth and development were not there.

Unlike such skill-specific trainings, which are essentially instrumental trainings, personal growth and development trainings work with the personality of the participants in the training. The form of work of such trainings can be very different. In trainings of a psychotherapeutic orientation, work is more often done with personal problems and fears of participants, helping to relieve mental pain and resentment, freeing them from psychological trauma and complexes.

Personal development trainings no longer work with problems, but with the tasks of the participants, they teach you to see not problems, but opportunities, to live not according to patterns, but creatively, not to worry in vain, but to turn on your head and think, not to look for excuses and excuses, but to find solutions and take responsibility, to see people not as enemies and not to defend themselves from them, but to treat people kindly, quickly find friends and establish cooperative relationships. Personal development trainings teach participants to manage their emotions, live not in the past, but in the future, develop the author's life position in the participants and raise questions of their personal values ​​and life mission.

Criteria and indicators of personal growth are subjective and depend on who evaluates it, how it understands it and what pays attention to. These criteria will be different for representatives of various psychological schools and trends, for people with different psychotypes, for process and result workers, for men and women. Men in personal growth are more often interested in external results that can be objectively assessed or measured, for women, personal growth is rather subjective and is felt primarily by herself or people close to her.

Dealing with the concept of "personal growth", one must take into account the fact that some psychologists, primarily of the humanistic direction, put their own, rather specific content into this concept. Namely, they understand personal growth not so much as the result of positive changes in the personality, but as a special process, a special way of personality development. Based on the ideas of the positive nature of a person, characteristic of the works of K. Rogers and A. Maslow, they consider personal growth as a natural unfolding in a person of what is inherent in him by nature or has become his second nature. If we distinguish between “growth” as something natural and “development” as something that is largely set by the environment, then psychologists of this direction understand personal growth as something that grows in a person on its own, in contrast to what is set in a person by society in the process of socialization. .

A. Maslow wrote: "A teacher or culture does not create a person. They do not instill in him the ability to love or be curious, or philosophize, create symbols, create. Rather, they enable, favor, encourage, help what exists in the bud to become real and relevant."

It is precisely because of such linguistic confusion that a paradox is possible when not every personal growth is personal growth. Indeed, actual personal growth (by outcome) can be achieved in a variety of ways. For example, if an increase in the potential of the individual occurred as a result of the process of personality formation, as a result of the process of education organized from the outside, then there was no process of personal growth, and the result - personal growth - is obvious.

Such a concept of personal growth, which opposes its development and personality formation, was born in the tradition of humanistic psychology and exists only within its framework: psychoanalytic or behavioral psychologists do not use such a concept of "personal growth". In order not to be confused, we suggest that in those cases where we are only interested in the result of personal growth and the path how it was achieved is not important, we use a more general concept: personal development.

Personal growth and self-development

Personal growth and self-development is the concentration of the meaning of life. Everything that exists in the world is developing, and exists only in development. Any phenomenon, event, object, living being and, of course, a person undergoes changes, a certain evolution in the course of existence. Development pulls us forward, to a higher level, to a new turn of the spiral. This is the law of nature, the Universe or the Divine (as it is convenient for anyone to think). Lack of development is the road to degradation. There is no other option, it simply does not exist. Self-development is a constant and interesting process. In its process, changing ourselves and reaching another high level, as when climbing a mountain, we begin to see wider, further and more. The understanding comes that this process is endless and the further, the more exciting this journey. What helps a person in personal growth and self-development?

Personal growth and self-development 7 tools on the path to improvement:

1. Keeping a personal diary. It can be both a paper version and an online diary. Its advantages and pluses: analysis of the day, evaluation of events, thoughts, actions, plans. Ways to solve problems. Helps track ineffective and negative thought and behavior patterns. Teaches you to express your thoughts clearly and clearly. Includes logical thinking. With the help of a diary, it is easy to see your evolution, the changes that occur over long periods of time. The diary also allows you to re-read past events in a different way, to focus on positive moments and behaviors, to remember mistakes so that you don’t get into them again.
2. Notebook of ideas - a bank of your own ideas. A very important tool. Our brain has the ability to generate ideas at any time of the day, in any weather, in a variety of environments. Yes, the idea quickly appeared, but it can immediately disappear somewhere. And that's it, remember what your name was! That's what a notebook is for, so that you can immediately put this bird on the list and not forget it. The value of such gifts of our thinking is very great. Great things can be grown from them.
3. Program with a plus sign. Our task is to catch repeating negative statements in our heads. And change to the opposite, that is, positive, bright, good, positive.
4. Acceptance of yourself completely: with advantages and disadvantages. Creating an ideal image of his personality, and trying to get closer to it, a person begins to scold, condemn, blame himself for imperfection. And thus doing himself a disservice. Lowers self-esteem, spends energy on accusations. For personal growth and self-development, it is necessary to look at yourself from the position of a dispassionate observer. To ask questions. How did I do it? Why did he do it this way? What could have been done better? What can I change?
5. Gum technique. Quite a well-known tool for changing thinking. Put a rubber band around your wrist and, every time a negative thought seeps into your brain or a bad habit returns, pull it back and let go - click, pain - change of thought and behavior. Tested, very effective!
6. Ask a question to your subconscious mind. Ask yourself what you need to change in yourself in order to achieve the desired goal, complete an important task, change relationships with others. And forget. After some time, usually a day, two or three, perhaps at the most unexpected this moment the answer will pop up in your mind. And it will be the best possible option. Believe yourself!
7. Step over fear, settle for something new. Usually, behind fear and anxiety, there is an unknown land, something that we have not yet encountered, have not met. This is exactly what the development zone is, because it is unknown, it gives a powerful impetus to growth, rapid progress, and improvement.

Professional personal growth

There is a catchphrase: "The most difficult thing is the struggle with oneself." It, as well as possible, is also suitable as an explanation for the fact that both professional and personal growth represent, if not a struggle, then constant hard work on oneself ... At the same time, the beginning of this work is a real battle with their established attitudes and stereotypes that have developed in society, and there is, in fact, no logical conclusion, since "there is no limit to perfection." Let's try together to understand in more detail what the concepts "personal growth" and "professional growth" actually mean, as well as what difficulties you most often encounter on the path of self-development.

One of the most famous wishes is: "Health, success in your career and happiness in your personal life!". This clearly explains that in order to achieve satisfaction with life, in addition to health, financial well-being and a state of harmony with oneself and one's loved ones are one of the most necessary conditions.

The very definitions of the concepts of "professional growth" and "personal growth" are deciphered as: the constant development of a person and the accumulation of a variety of experience and knowledge throughout his life.

The natural accumulation of life experience without additional self-development of the individual often leads to a situation where everything is already clear and understandable, but, alas, it is already too late. It seems quite logical that in order to develop and accumulate more experience in less time, it is necessary to devote more time to studying information on issues of interest. That is, for active professional growth: at least - constantly improve your skills, and, as a maximum - get additional education, be aware of all changes and innovations in the professional field that interests you.

Accordingly, for personal growth: study psychological literature, learn the mechanisms and tactics of behavior in a given situation, etc. It is clear that education requires a certain amount of time, perseverance and diligence, but the notorious “highest degree of complexity” has not yet been observed , truth?

“What is the unbearable difficulty?”, You ask. And behind you, you probably already have a school, university or college, and perhaps more than one advanced training course. So the experience of studying and accumulating information, most likely, is quite extensive. Yes, and a certain worldly experience is also, of course, present, and perhaps you have long been interested in all kinds of psychological literature.

The main elements that define personality are distinguished:

Knowing yourself.
Motivating yourself.
Promotion of professional and personal growth.
Self-realization.

“Professional and personal growth is not only the amount of professional and psychological information read in books or listened to in special courses. Personal growth occurs only when a person can apply this knowledge for the benefit of his life. Plus, no matter how educated a person is, in a highly specialized area of ​​his professional activity, without the skills of responsibility, communication and interaction, he is unlikely to be able to achieve significant career heights.

This is the formation of a completely new look at your life and possible prospects (both professional and personal).” You can read an incredible amount of literature, go to more than one psychologist, attend a decent number of trainings for personal and professional growth. But as long as all the knowledge you have gained is a "dead weight" of exceptional theory, there can be no talk of professional or personal growth. But to start implementing the knowledge gained in life is really much more difficult, because it is from this moment that you begin to change and, accordingly, face responses from both your own psyche and the world around you.

The response of your own body to the initial stages of your personal development and professional growth: fear and an attempt to return the situation to its usual course.

So, you have shoveled a large amount of literature, thoroughly delved into yourself, perhaps went to a psychologist, or to personal growth training, realized possible problems with self-esteem, self-doubt and negative attitudes that interfere with your life and the successful implementation of your plans and desires. Theoretically, you understand “where the legs grow from” and what exactly you would like to change, but, first of all, you are tormented by an insane fear of doing harm and making everything only worse than it is at the moment.

Fear of seeming stupid and ridiculous, fear of making mistakes that cannot be corrected. Plus, personal and professional growth at the initial stage cannot be felt and measured to ensure the correctness of one's path.

For example, if you decide to lose weight and pump up certain muscles, then the reflection in the mirror, the scales and freely dangling clothes that used to be tight will tell you in just a few weeks that you are doing everything right, or that somewhere then you need to change something. Plus, the euphoria from the first results achieved will encourage you to conquer new heights. In the case of self-development, everything happens a little differently and the road is much longer and more thorny.

Perhaps, at some training, you even successfully completed certain exercises, and this recharged you with energy for a while. But one thing is a game situation, and quite another - real life. In real life, it is much harder to say “no” to close people or colleagues at work who load you with unnecessary requests that interfere with your development, or who try to use you and your time for their own selfish purposes.

It is more difficult to take responsibility for completing a specific task at work or for deciding that you no longer intend to tolerate dismissive treatment from colleagues or acquaintances. So, in dreams, of course, it’s nice to fly, but reality frightens and hisses, urging you not to leave your cozy mink, in which it’s “warm and damp”.

Fear and uncertainty can greatly interfere with even the strongest motivation, deprive you of peace and sleep, and even provoke panic attacks and psychosomatic illnesses, as a response of the body, with which it tries to protect its existing inner world from serious changes.

The response of society to the initial stages of your personal and professional growth: misunderstanding and aggression.

Imagine a closed system inhabited by certain organisms. Each of them occupies a certain place and performs certain duties. Someone occupied more convenient niches, someone got something simpler, but everyone is used to it and everyone is more or less satisfied with everything. And suddenly, one of the organisms gets out of the usual rhythm and begins to behave in a completely different way than before. Do you think the system will like it? Approximately the same happens in the case when you begin to change your habitual for society, line of behavior and response system. It's one thing when you're just learning something you don't understand. They usually react to this in the spirit: “Wasting time on, the devil knows what, it would be better to rest, watch TV, and drink beer with us. Well, yes, and figs with him! This is a banal misunderstanding.

But when you move from theory to action, real retaliatory aggression begins, because everyone was satisfied with the inconspicuous "Vasya Pupkin" or "Masha Ivanova", who quietly sat and pored over the entire department, not even hinting at a bonus / promotion, or a quiet husband /wife, laying down their lives for the benefit of relatives and friends. And the notorious "Vasya" or "Masha" suddenly imagined themselves worthy of becoming leaders, refusing to fulfill other people's duties.

Or a quiet wife and mother of the family remembered herself, does not allow her needs to be pushed to the last place, comes up with new responsibilities for family members, etc. In such a situation, even the closest people begin to fight for the “return of the prodigal parrot” to their usual perch and go , first of all, calls to come to their senses, not to suffer garbage from which, according to anyone, nothing good will come of it (in their opinion, of course).

There is a way out: do not set global goals, do not reproach yourself and continue to stick to your line! Summing up the intermediate results, one might think that the tasks of personal and professional growth are indeed prohibitively complex and it is better not to even try to “stick your nose” out of the ordinary, leaving life to take its course. Indeed, at a time when it is already insanely difficult and scary to take the first steps, instead of the slightest support on the way, only rejection and aggression will occur. The easiest way is to abandon everything and continue to live as before: sometimes dreaming about more, but immediately curbing yourself that it is too difficult to make these dreams come true, and you have already tried once or twice, but it didn’t work out.

But there really is a way out, and it is:

1. In breaking each large goal into several small ones.
2. In encouraging any of their achievements (even the most minimal ones).
3. In a competent analysis of possible mistakes. After all, as you know: "Only the one who does nothing does not make mistakes."

All this, taken together, will help the individual to first adapt to the changes that have begun, form an adequate self-esteem, and subsequently to form an adequate and sober view of things in order to acquire more convenient forms of behavior, which, in turn, will help to withstand the response of society more confidently and independently and do not deviate from the intended goals.

Gradually, the first positive results will appear, and with them the excitement for new achievements. At work, you will be perceived in a completely different way, and you will receive much more positive emotions from the work process.

Over time, the idea may come to mind to change the field of activity or open your own business, and if, as before, you continue to move in small but confident steps towards new and new goals, then sooner or later you will realize that there is no difference between dream and reality. abyss, but a clear strategy.

Relatives and friends will gradually not only accept the situation, but will also begin to be proud of you. The circle of communication may change, but for the better and according to your own, directly, desire. Good luck and patience in these difficult undertakings on the path of personal and professional growth, because thanks to self-realization, life is able to sparkle with new bright colors and acquire completely different perspectives!

Development of personal growth

"Personal growth" and "Personal development" - as concepts, these are quite different things, but in practice few people distinguish between them. Even experts call them, confusing, and so and so.

Growth is called quantitative changes, and if in the process of changes something becomes more in a person (confidence, strength, reaction speed) despite the fact that these changes occurred from the inside, naturally - in this case they talk about the process of personal growth. For example, all children, by virtue of natural biological maturation and the cares of their parents, grow up in their psychological and educational level to kindergarten, then to school, the school raises them to college, then life pushes them to subsequent adulthood ... This is a natural, or passive personal growth.

Of course, in the process of growth, qualitative leaps - transformations - can sometimes occur. The caterpillar grows - and suddenly turns into a chrysalis, and the chrysalis - into a fluttering butterfly. Likewise, the child grows and grows, and now in the place of the baby - a teenager, then - a young man, and after some time the young man will become an adult. However, these transformations are not natural growth in its pure form, real Mowglis remain only little animals, children do not turn into humans by themselves. The child turns into a man only under the condition of the educative influence of human culture. Accordingly, it was not only growth, it was already the development of a person and personality.

We remember the classic: growth means quantitative changes, development means qualitative changes. If you see the book "Personal Development of Preschool Children", you know that you will find there a description of how a child's personality changes qualitatively from year to year, what happens when a child develops neoplasms. The main questions to the topic of the results of personality development are: “What neoplasms can we talk about as qualitatively new?”, “How can you check that the development really happened?”, “Is it possible to talk about the level of development of a particular personality, compare people by level personal development!" and "What are the peaks of personality development?".

Unlike quantitative growth, development refers to qualitative changes. If in the process of change a person becomes different in something important, qualitative changes took place with him, they speak of the process of personality development. In practice, in life, the source of these qualitative changes is usually external influences: the boy was ill-mannered, they worked with him - and the boy became different - well-mannered. The girl was uneducated, but went to school, studied, and became an educated girl. Qualitative changes in us do not fall from the sky and do not spontaneously arise from within - they are created by someone. Someone who took care of us - or ourselves, if we began to change ourselves. This is not spontaneous generation, this is activity in relation to us.

Accordingly, we can give another, more practical criterion for distinguishing growth from development: Growth occurs from within, from oneself, while development is the result of a special influence from outside.

Accordingly, personal growth is an increase in the potential of the individual due to the internal dynamics of the personality core and its interaction with the environment. It can also be said that these are predominantly quantitative changes, understood as occurring from within. In contrast, the development of personality is produced by someone - i.e. the person himself, his relatives or society. If the influence from the outside on a person turned out to be effective, led to qualitative changes, then the development of the personality took place.

Mom fed me, and I ate and grew. I put on weight not because I made myself bigger or because my mother made me bigger, I grew up because if there is food at my age, my body grows on its own. This is growth. Or: the teacher taught me to study independently and with desire. I studied, but the teacher made me loving to study. This is development.

From the point of view of practice, the most important difference between "personal growth" and "personal development" lies in the psychological arsenal of possible means of influencing ongoing processes. What is in our arsenal if we want to help a person's personal growth? - Only three things: faith in a person, the creation of a free supportive environment and - psychotherapy, that is, support and treatment in case of problems. A little. What is in the arsenal of a specialist psychologist involved in the development of the personality of a student, client, participant in the training? Here the arsenal is much richer: cooperation in his self-development, study, training, transfer of knowledge, presentation of samples, development of skills and abilities. And also - rewards and punishments, suggestion and infection, involvement and other positive manipulations, all varieties of positive and other reinforcement, in general, all varieties of classical and operant conditioning.

It is clear that growth and development are interrelated and complement each other. Growth is the natural basis for development. You can develop only that for which there is already a natural basis. If a young person is still only an Executor in terms of business responsibility, has not even grown to the level of a Specialist, then it is useless to develop a Manager in him. He is still small. The speed of development is always limited by the need for a person to grow up to what he acquired in the process of studying at the training. New personal roles must germinate in the soul, grow into the soul, only then they become not external masks, but a new facet of the personality. Only "develop" without looking at growth is impossible all the time: development must be supported by natural growth. Studying should alternate with life so that new knowledge is enriched with real experience and practice.

Personal growth of the teacher

The task of forming an independent, responsible and socially mobile personality capable of successful socialization in society and active adaptation in the labor market determines the need to train teachers capable of personal self-determination and self-development, for constant personal growth. Scientists note that the teacher has three possibilities or three ways in determining the prospects for his development: the path of adaptation, the path of self-development and the path of stagnation (disintegration of activity, degradation of the personality). Adaptation makes it possible to adapt to all the requirements of the education system, to master all types of activities, to master role positions. Self-development allows you to constantly improve yourself, change, and ultimately fully realize yourself as a professional. Stagnation occurs when, according to Vershlovsky: "when the teacher stops in his development, lives by exploiting stereotypes, old baggage." As a result, professional activity decreases, immunity to the new increases and, as a result, even that which once allowed to be at the level of requirements is lost.

Personal and professional growth and self-improvement throughout the entire period of pedagogical activity is an indispensable condition for the successful activity of a teacher. Here, any failure, any decline in activity is necessarily noticed by the participants in the pedagogical process, and negatively affects the results of pedagogical work.

Each person is individual and unique. It has a unique structure that combines all the psychological properties of a given person.

In the structure of personality, psychologists distinguish three components, the content of which indicates its maturity and personal growth:

1. the cognitive component includes a person's ideas about himself, others and the world; a mature healthy person is distinguished by the fact that she evaluates herself as an active subject of life, making free choices and bearing responsibility for them; perceives other people as unique and equal participants in the life process. Indeed, only the person who is able to see uniqueness in others can develop this in himself;
2. emotional one of the brightest and main components. Through emotions, a person expresses joy, resentment, happiness, cognizes the world and makes it brighter;
3. the behavioral component is a vivid indicator of a developed personality, which consists of actions: in relation to oneself, other people and the world.

Thus, personal growth depends on the degree of formation of each structure.

A developed personality, a personality with clearly defined values, allows a person to:

Clearly stay in their positions;
- Have your own view of everything that happens in the world;
- Find positive in bad situations;
- Live a full, vibrant, independent life;
- Be able to make choices from the simplest to the most vital things;
- Appreciate every minute of life;
- Enjoy what you have;
- Rejoice in the victories of others;
- Take responsibility for your actions;
- Be able to lose and accept defeat with dignity;
- Know how to forgive.

A person's values ​​are his inner wealth, his inner potential.

Personal potential is a complex of psychological properties that gives a person the opportunity to make decisions and regulate his behavior, taking into account and evaluating the situation, but based primarily on his internal ideas and criteria.

Personal autonomy and independence;
- inner freedom;
- meaning of life;
- resilience in difficult circumstances;
- readiness for internal changes;
- the ability to perceive new uncertain information;
- constant readiness for action;
- features of activity planning;
- temporal perspective of personality.

Different scientists approached the development of the content of the concept of personal growth, defining the main component of the disclosure of one's own potential.

A. Maslow called this goal self-actualization. The basic law of personal growth is based on the well-known formula of K. Rogers "if-then". If there are necessary conditions, then the process of self-development is actualized in a person, the natural consequence of which will be changes in the direction of his personal maturity.

The main meaning of personal growth is liberation, finding yourself and your life path, self-actualization and development of all basic personal attributes. Full personal growth is possible only if a person respects his own inner world, and others recognize and respect his inner world.

Here are the criteria for personal growth:

Intrapersonal (self-acceptance):

Self-acceptance means self-recognition and unconditional love for myself as I am, an attitude towards myself as “a person worthy of respect, capable of independent choice.” Openness to the inner experience of experiences - the “experience of experiences” the stronger and more mature the personality is, the more free it is to protect itself from the distorting influence and is able to listen to this inner reality, treat it as worthy of trust and “live in the present”. Understanding oneself as accurate, complete and deep as possible about oneself and one's current state, the ability to see and hear one's true self, through layers of masks, roles and protections; adequate and flexible "I-concept". Responsible freedom in relationships with oneself means, first of all, responsibility for the realization of one's life as one's own, awareness of the acceptance of one's freedom. Integrity is the interconnectedness of all aspects of human life, and especially the integrity of the inner world and the personality itself. Dynamism personality exists in a constant, continuous process of change. Personal growth is the way of its existence.

Interpersonal (acceptance of others):

A mature person is capable of accepting other people as they are, respecting their originality and the right to be themselves, recognizing their unconditional value and trusting them. Differs in freedom from prejudices and stereotypes, the ability to adequate, complete and differentiated perception of the surrounding reality. A person in contacts with others becomes more and more open and natural, but at the same time - more realistic, flexible, able to competently resolve interpersonal contradictions and "live with others in the greatest possible harmony." The most important quality of a mature personality is the readiness to boldly and openly face life's problems and cope with them, not simplifying, but showing "creative adaptation to the novelty of a particular moment" and "the ability to express and use all the potential internal possibilities."

Consider the mechanisms of personal growth:

A person must learn always and everywhere, he must learn to analyze his actions, learn to accept himself and others, learn to develop his good qualities. A self-improving person should bring creativity into any work - show an individual approach, have a personal opinion and be able to involve significant people in activities. The individual must constantly be on the move along the path of personal growth, using methods that work well. The most important and important thing is to admit to yourself your shortcomings, find their cause and eradicate them step by step.

Thus, personal growth is important for a teacher, not just in itself, but as the ability to form one's life strategy. A life strategy is a life program, a “script” about happiness that every person has; it is a system of values ​​and goals, the implementation of which, according to the ideas of a person, makes it possible to make his life the most successful (in the understanding of the person himself) and helps to direct students on the path of personal growth. The main indicators of the effectiveness of a person's life strategy are not specific achievements, but life satisfaction and mental health. External strategies are associated with the desire of a person to quickly and easily adapt to the external environment. In this case, a person tries as best as possible to meet the role expectations, the prevailing social values ​​and requirements, that is, to be the way others want to see him. The main question that he decides is how to live, how to find meaning in the life he lives. Internal strategies are based on the values ​​of personal growth, development, mental and spiritual health, love, affection, service to society. These strategies are connected not so much with adaptation as with self-realization of the teacher in the world. The main question for him is what to live for. Such a teacher seeks to bring life into line with its meaning.

And only a teacher who is able to develop, constantly improve himself, can prepare our children for the future, complex, interesting, unusual and very happy life.

Personal growth of students

Modern culture is characterized by an increased interest in a person’s personality, in connection with which there have been shifts in the education system from obtaining a certain set of knowledge to the formation of an independent, creative, flexible personality capable of acting in accordance with changing conditions, self-improvement and self-learning. The reason for this is the rapid change in the pace of life, the strengthening of the role of technology in the processes of education and upbringing, the complexity of labor and social activities. An avalanche-like growth in the volume of available information leads to the fact that the model of "knowledge transfer from teacher to student" ceases to work, since the current amount of knowledge exceeds the capabilities of this channel both at the input and at the output.

Thus, the appeal to the formation of the personality of the student and the humanization of education seem to be a logical step, but are these ideas really innovative? An analysis of the literature shows that teachers of different times paid attention to the need to take into account the characteristics of the character and inner world of the student. Humanist teachers of the 15th-16th centuries. Vittorino da Feltre (Italy), M. Montaigne (France), Erasmus of Rotterdam (Holland) and others developed the ideas of an individual approach to teaching, respect for the student's personality. In Russia, these ideas were picked up by L.N. Tolstoy, who developed the idea of ​​free education.

In the twentieth century, such teachers as D. Dewey (USA), and later K. Rogers, A. Maslow, A. Combs, R. May, V. Frankl, and others addressed the personality of the student, who suggested not to “train” the student on certain material, but to provide him with certain assistance in the development. Since the 80s of the twentieth century, a direction appeared in domestic pedagogy, called "personal approach" or "personal-oriented learning", which began to be developed by such scientists as K.A. Abulkhanova, V.V. Davydov, V.E. Zinchenko, Ya.L. Kolominsky, I.S. Kon, A.V. Mudrik, A.B. Orlov, A.V. Petrovsky, I.S. Yakimanskaya and others S.L. Rubinstein in his writings points out that “thinking as a real mental process is itself a unity of the intellectual and emotional, and emotions are a unity of the emotional and intellectual”. Consequently, only the harmonious development of the emotional and intellectual spheres will make it possible to form an active, independent personality capable of responding to the challenges of the time.

Thus, the ideas of taking into account the personality of the student, up to recognizing him as “the main acting figure in the entire educational process” (I. S. Yakimanskaya), are not new. However, despite the long history of developing these ideas, the mass school has always been characterized by an authoritarian style of teaching, and the standardization of tasks for all students, without regard for their individual differences.

What is the fundamental novelty of the modern approach to the formation of a student's personality? First of all, for the first time in the Federal State Educational Standard of Basic General Education, not only subject goals are spelled out, including “skills specific to a given subject area mastered by students in the course of studying a subject area, types of activities to obtain new knowledge within the framework of an academic subject”, but also meta-subject , including "interdisciplinary concepts mastered by students and universal educational activities, building an individual educational trajectory", as well as personal ones, including "the readiness and ability of students for self-development and personal self-determination, the formation of their motivation for learning and purposeful cognitive activity, systems of significant social and interpersonal relationships , value-semantic attitudes that reflect personal and civic positions in activities, social competencies, legal awareness, the ability to set goals and build life plans, the ability to understand Russian identity in multicultural society” (FGOS).

Thus, the development of the student's personality, the disclosure of his capabilities, talents, the formation of self-awareness, self-realization moves from the category of one of the possible approaches to learning, to the category of basic requirements for the results of teaching children at school.

Having determined the importance of student-centered learning, it is necessary to ask the question of what constitutes a student's personal growth, and how to measure it.

The answer to this question is found in the Federal State Educational Standard, which offers us, among other things, the following personal results of mastering the basic educational program of basic general education:

Assimilation of humanistic, democratic and traditional values ​​of the Russian society;
formation of a responsible attitude to learning, readiness and ability of students for self-development and self-education based on motivation for learning and cognition, conscious choice and building a further individual trajectory of education;
formation of a holistic worldview corresponding to the current level of development of science and social practice, taking into account the social, cultural, linguistic, spiritual diversity of the modern world;
the formation of a conscious, respectful and benevolent attitude towards another person; readiness and ability to conduct a dialogue with other people and achieve mutual understanding in it;
development of moral consciousness and competence in solving moral problems based on personal choice, the formation of moral feelings and moral behavior, a conscious and responsible attitude to one's own actions;
the formation of communicative competence in communication and cooperation in various activities (FSES).

Thus, the development of a personality at school involves the development of the emotional and intellectual spheres of the student, the formation of a positive attitude towards oneself and the world, self-confidence, responsibility, cognitive interest, motivation to gain knowledge and self-development. Full or partial achievement of these results can be called the student's personal growth.

Undoubtedly, the class teacher has the most holistic view of the various aspects of the development of the student's personality, who considers achievements by the sum of the criteria for evaluating all subjects, as well as the extracurricular educational process, however, subject teachers should also have clear parameters for assessing the formation of specific qualities at each age stage of personality development .

Based on the Federal State Educational Standard, the scale proposed by V. D. Svintsova, and the work of E. S. Kuzmina, we single out the parameters suitable for assessing the personal growth of students suitable for a subject teacher. Each of the parameters is divided on a scale from 5 (fully formed) to 1 (not formed), which allows you to measure the level of growth in a certain time period.

These include:

1. Motivation of educational and cognitive activity. Curiosity, interest, persistent cognitive activity, scientific curiosity - this is the way of generating interest in subject and supra-subject knowledge, directly related to the activation of the will and the development of cognitive interest.
2. Formation of intellectual skills (analysis, synthesis, comparison, establishment of patterns). This aspect is directly related to the formation of universal learning activities (UUD) in the lesson. Its formation leads to an increase in the efficiency of students' assimilation of knowledge and learning activities, the formation of competencies and competencies in subject areas, educational, research and project activities.
3. The degree of learning and self-learning reflects the ability to master the educational material, assessment and self-assessment, the development of various types of memory, the ability to concentrate on solving tasks.
4. Skills of educational work, including planning and control of educational activities, competence in the use of information and communication technologies, including knowledge of technologies for searching, building and transmitting information, presentation of work performed, the basics of information security, the ability to safely use information and communication technologies and the Internet. This parameter also includes the presence of skills to participate in various forms of organizing educational, research and project activities (creative competitions, competitions, scientific and practical conferences, competitions, etc.).
5. Initiative in the search for and mastery of new knowledge and skills and determination, the ability to set specific goals, develop a strategy and tactics to achieve the goal and objectives.
6. Formation of communication skills, which includes mastering the methods of educational cooperation and social interaction with peers, older students and adults in joint educational, research and project activities.
7. The last most important criterion for assessing personal growth is the formed ability to transfer and apply universal educational activities in life situations to solve problems of general cultural, personal and cognitive development. It indicates the formed ability for self-development and self-improvement, the presence of stable personal value-semantic guidelines and attitudes based on personal, regulatory, cognitive, communicative universal learning activities.

Having identified the main criteria for assessing the personal growth of students, let's move on to specific ways in which a student can show his personal growth. The modern five-point system, unfortunately, does not affect this aspect, focusing only on the knowledge part. Rating system which is carried out according to indicators: study, creative achievements; responsibility, initiative in educational work - also can not always reflect the potential of the child. Feedback and reflection bring us most closely to the assessment and self-assessment of personal growth, but often the child needs more substantial, “material” proof of his achievements. An excellent form for this is a portfolio - a bank of personal achievements in all areas of a child's life.

The portfolio is not only an addition to the traditional assessment system, but also an excellent preparation for independent adulthood, reflecting the results of the child's activities, his achievements and progress compared to his own previous results. It is this comparison with "yesterday's self" that children lack in the traditional assessment system, and the teacher makes it possible to trace the stages of personal growth of their students.

At a foreign language lesson, a portfolio is presented in the form of a language portfolio - an electronic document, album or folder with a set of student work for a certain period of time. As a rule, this is not a very short period - a quarter, trimester, half a year, a year or several years, since it is over time that the development of students' skills and personal competencies becomes noticeable. The portfolio can include any work of the student, drafts, creative projects that reflect the setting of a specific goal, methods and stages of achieving it. As a result, the student gets the opportunity to continuously evaluate their achievements and compare their work at different stages of filling the portfolio. It is also important that with the help of a portfolio, students can not only observe their own development, but also present the results of their work to parents, students, classmates, which is a much more significant confirmation of their own achievements than a faceless mark in a diary. Thus, the use of portfolio technology forms a new understanding of the learning process itself, which can give a new impetus to the development of methods for assessing the personal growth of students.

Psychology of personal growth

The so-called personal growth is the totality of all processes of self-improvement of any individual, which are aimed at embodying in him that person and the ideal that his own “I” aspires to.

In other words, the development and growth of personality is the desire for one's ideal image. All the factors accompanying this movement, comfortable conditions for development, which make the approach to the goal as active as possible, are also called personal growth.

Perfection is the most significant meaning of life and activity of any person. As a process, development makes possible some specific changes in one's character, experience, skills and abilities. It is quite clear that the personal growth of each subject is unique and unrepeatable, since each individual has his own idea of ​​the ideal "I".

Personal growth in psychology

Self-development as a tool for personal growth consists in the constant and continuous increase of the subject's own potential. In this case, the potential is considered to be a certain system of personal characteristics and values ​​of the individual.

That is, we are talking about a specific set of individual abilities of a person to maintain certain internal values, to keep their motivation and purposefulness in accordance with each other. Potential is the indicator that makes it possible to make certain decisions and not only regulate their activities independently, but proceed from personal criteria for the possibilities of its application.

First of all, personal growth implies victory over certain qualities of one's personality, which are considered as “weaknesses”. It can be a certain fear, phobia, complex, indecision. All that is an obstacle to the achievement and formation of the "I" of the ideal. Personal growth in psychology is seen as an independent development of the individual, the purpose of which is the need to become better than at present. At the same time, it should be noted that this process is a kind of emotional labor that sets the constant pace of the individual's work on himself.

Of course, the effectiveness of the development and growth of a person largely depends on the individual's own efforts. However, these efforts alone are not enough, since a benevolent atmosphere is also required around an individual who is given a specific goal. External factors, as well as the mood and assessment of others, can suppress the motivation and determination of the subject to form an ideal "I", I will be critical of his ideals.

A person who sets himself the goal of increasing his potential strives not only for ordinary communication and contact with the people around him, but in every possible way achieves joint interaction. In communication with others, such a subject becomes quite open, expresses ease and looseness. At the same time, he also does not lose his view of reality, demonstrates active positions and flexibility in resolving emerging problems or conflicts.

Diagnostics of personal growth

We offer two versions of the diagnostic questionnaire - for students in grades 5-8 and for students in grades 9-11. The structure of these two questionnaires, the methods of their processing and interpretation of the results do not fundamentally differ from each other - only some wording of the questions differs.

Each of the questionnaires consists of 91 statements, to which adolescents can express their attitude. To do this, they must decide for themselves how much they agree (or disagree) with the statements contained in the questionnaire, and assess the degree of their agreement (or disagreement) in points from "+4" to "-4". The number of statements - 91 - is explained as follows: for each of the 13 values ​​(more precisely, objects of a value attitude) presented in the table, we developed 7 statements that reveal the attitude of schoolchildren to these values.

Here it is important to note one problem associated with the large number of statements contained in the questionnaire. As practice has shown, work with such a questionnaire will not cause any special difficulties for high school students and will take only one lesson. But it will be difficult for schoolchildren of 5-8 grades to work with a large amount of information. Therefore, in these classes, we recommend that diagnostics be carried out in two days, dividing the questionnaire in half accordingly. So the problem will be solved.

When selecting materials for the proposed diagnostic questionnaire, we were guided by the following principles:

The statements contained in the questionnaire should encourage the teenager to demonstrate his attitude to the world, to other people, to himself;
- the wording of statements should be understandable for schoolchildren and perceived by them unambiguously;
- the text of the questionnaire should be drawn up in such a way as to avoid possible conforming behavior of schoolchildren, attempts to “guess” the answer, “correctly” treat this or that thesis. To do this, adolescents must be given the right to anonymously fill out a questionnaire;
- the abstracts of the questionnaire should be formulated in such a way that one or another answer does not look in the eyes of the student as obviously socially approved.

Of course, the questionnaire can be used to assess the current (static) state of the adolescent's value relations to the world, to other people, to himself. But since personal growth is a dynamic phenomenon, the developed questionnaire must be used, in our opinion, to identify the dynamics of the student's personality development (his personal growth or personal regression).

In this regard, in our opinion, it is advisable to conduct a survey during the academic year: the first time - at the beginning, the second - at the end. This will allow teachers to see not only the nature of the relationship of students to the world, to other people, to themselves, but also the change in these relationships, that is, to trace the possible dynamics of personal growth. This method of conducting the survey has one disadvantage: if the questionnaire is presented to the same children more than twice, they may develop a habit of using it, which reduces the reliability of the results. However, it seems that a creative teacher will be able to find a way out of this difficulty.

Another scheme for conducting the survey is also possible: the first time - among the fifth graders, the second - among the seventh graders, the third - among the ninth graders, and the fourth - among the same schoolchildren, but already in the eleventh grade. In this case, the dynamics of personality development becomes even more obvious - you can trace what changes have occurred in the development of your pupils over the course of several years. But this method also has a drawback: the percentage of fifth-graders who completed their studies in a particular school and a particular classroom team up to the eleventh grade may turn out to be low. However, this difficulty can also be overcome.

Personal Growth Goals

Again and again, many people think about how to find their place in life, how to achieve goals and realize their own aspirations. All this is important not only for success or career growth, self-esteem, psychological comfort and well-being of a person as a whole depend on the ability to solve these issues.

The Goal of Personal Growth

Often the cause of the problems we face in everyday life is our lack of knowledge of the strengths of our personality, which prevents us from effectively using our own abilities. In fact, every person moves in this direction all his life, often unconsciously, and sometimes consciously. These are the ones who are moving in the direction of personal growth consciously and will be discussed. If you have a need to increase your spiritual, mental, financial level, then you realize that you could achieve more.

Disclosure of internal potential

Sometimes we do not think about how this happens, but behind external success, there is always internal success. In order to come to this, you need to engage in self-improvement, know your strengths and weaknesses, be able to manage yourself. But in most cases, psychological support of the individual is necessary here.

As a result, work can be done in the following areas:

Motivation;
Search for the meaning of life;
Self-realization;
Questions of development of internal potential of the person.

Motivation for personal growth

Motivation is one of the foundations of personal development. By realizing the true motives of your actions, you will find out why this or that situation is beneficial to you, and you will also be able to find ways out of it. By understanding what drives you, it will be easy to prioritize and find a way to achieve the desired results. Working with motivation will allow you to become more active, organized and focused.

Finding the meaning of life

For those who feel dissatisfaction, restlessness or an inner call, it may be relevant to search for their own unique and inimitable meaning in life. Psychological methods of self-awareness will help to find inner values ​​that will become a support and resource for personal development. Such work will enrich your life, fill it with new ideas, energy and help you discover your unique potential. Without knowing the meanings, it is impossible to set goals in life and search for ways of your development.

Successful self-realization

Human life is unique, which means that sooner or later, everyone faces the questions of choosing their own path. How to find your calling? What does it take to be successful and enjoy life? When is it worth taking risks to realize your desires? All these and many other questions related to self-realization will be answered during joint work.

Revealing Hidden Opportunities and Strengths

Personal growth is impossible without a deep acquaintance with oneself. By learning more about yourself, learning to understand and accept your strengths and weaknesses, you will get rid of the fear of failure and will be able to successfully overcome obstacles to the realization of your desires. This direction involves working with internal clamps and blocks, searching for hidden opportunities and resources, as well as many other interesting and important discoveries.

Spiritual practices

Life in nature in harmony and silence is conducive to inner development, not so long ago I came to this and meeting the dawn every day, doing morning meditation, I feel the help and power of nature on myself. If you have never been engaged in spiritual practices, for a start, just a sports load in nature may suit you: walking, running. Our forms are of direct importance in achieving harmony, it is not in vain that so much time is devoted to this. However, the help of nature is not endless, it is a good background for internal changes, saturating with energy, but the well-known phrase “man - help yourself” lies at the heart of it. In order to develop, grow, reveal your inner potential, you need to work hard on yourself, set goals for yourself and achieve them. We do all this on the shore of a picturesque lake, on the Valdai Upland. Here, far from the hustle and bustle of cities, time flows differently and it is much easier to feel real, hear the inner voice, “breathe” and accumulate energy. Being alone with yourself has a number of significant advantages and is an essential component for this inner work. Life itself will tell you when to go out into nature and take care of yourself, and if you feel an unusual inner call to knowledge and disclosure of your potential, then the time has come.

Personal Growth Plan

Personal development: more than just motivation and positive thinking /

Personal development occurs when you finally decide to change your life for the better. But the whole process can be formed not only from positive experience or official seminars. Even negative experiences can help a person find the right direction in life.

Most personal development coaches try to focus our attention on self-motivation and positive thinking as the two most important ingredients that ensure success in personal development. Yes, in some ways they are right, but a holistic approach to self-development goes far beyond these two factors. Then you will learn about what else you need on your path of personal development.

personal development plan

First you need to have a system in place to achieve your development goals. It makes no sense to talk about how much you desire to achieve self-awareness or the development of your personality. You need to accept the system and see a vivid image. As you know, personal development covers a wide variety of areas of interest, and you can easily get lost if you don't have a plan. You need to put down on paper everything that you intend to do with your life and where you want to be after completing the program that you have planned.

Always remember that only by having a definite plan of action will you be able to determine whether you have become better or whether the circumstances of your life have improved. Done right, your plan will serve as a base against which you can measure your progress.

decisive step

You may have sufficient motivation or positive thoughts, but if you do not take action today, your personal development will never become a reality. Remember, personal improvement does not come overnight, time is of the essence. So start acting right now, otherwise you may lose the chance to improve yourself. Take a risk. Life is supposed to be an adventure, so if you don't get out of your comfort zone, you will be left to rot in the current situation.

Be open to change

The operative word in personal development is the word "change". If you can't manage change, you won't be able to improve yourself. But, it can be argued that changes will occur, even if you do not welcome it. Would you rather change under the influence of factors over which you have no control? It is obvious that it is better to be ready for external changes or to personally lead the changes in your life. This way you will know what action to take.

Sit on the shoulders of giants

If you want to accelerate your personal development, you need to learn from the people who were in your shoes before you. You really don't need to reinvent the wheel, all you have to do is learn from other people's experiences, especially those who have been successful in their quest to be better. In order to save you time and effort, you can always hire coaches or personal development mentors. You can also read a book or listen to audiobooks about self-development.

Take responsibility for your personal development

You are what you allow yourself to be. In other words, the things that define you today happened because you let them happen. If you've been lazy or indifferent all these years, you have no one to blame but yourself for where you are right now. Even your environment cannot be held responsible for who you are now. The key to your development is in your hands, and only you can use it. So, the manifestation of the initiative for self-development should come from you, and only you are responsible for the entire result that you get from an individual development program.

Good day, dear readers. I am glad to see you on the pages of my blog. In this article, I will consider a topic that is relevant and urgent for many: the development of personal growth. Every person, regardless of age, nationality, material and social status, strives for improvement. This is the meaning of the existence of the individual. Only the continuous growth of the individual will help to bring benefit to society and harmony in the soul of the person himself.

Many people do not know where to start their journey to the ideal life of a successful and harmonious person. I will give you a few tips to help you get started and move in the right direction. The main thing is not to deviate from the intended landmarks and stay inspired.

Motivation is one of the most important moments of personal growth. As long as you remember what or whom you need to move forward for, the loss of desire is not terrible for you. Well, I won't delay. I proceed to the description of the methods. Speaking of motivation, you can read here:.

1. Visualization - you have what already exists in your subconscious

Most people perceive visualization as the programming of the future. However, this method can also be used to review past experience. This is incredibly useful, as the analysis contributes to the understanding of one's mistakes and a conscious approach to the future.

Having made a mistake, a person is simply obliged to analyze the failure. Otherwise, negative experience will not teach you anything, and the mistakes made once will be repeated again.

The visualization method is effective in the evening. It is best to review the past before going to bed. During this period, the brain is as relaxed as possible, set to rest. Therefore, you do not interfere with small things, work or household duties.

Lying in bed or drinking aromatic tea, remember the situations in which you made unforgivable mistakes. Think about what you did wrong and how you could have avoided these troubles. Analyze the failure until you come up with the perfect solution to the problem.

You may not be able to think through all the details and find a way out in one evening. It's not scary at all. Think about the problem for as long as you need to. The main thing is to find its solution.

Perhaps a desire visualization board will help you in this matter. You can read about her

2. A look from the outside - the discovery of one's own strengths and weaknesses

Thanks to technological progress, many new ways of self-improvement have appeared. You can use an ordinary camera in a computer, phone, camera, tablet and other gadgets. Take a picture of your usual day and take a look.

You can capture a single important episode. For example, a business meeting, a conversation with a potential employer, communication with children or parents, etc. It is necessary to focus on areas in which there are strains and failures.

All athletes use this method to improve their technique. They record themselves on video, watch and analyze. The mistakes made are better visible on the monitor screen than in real life. Especially when it comes to yourself.

The shortcomings of others seem sometimes so obvious. And sometimes their own people do not even notice. The video chronicle of the day will show you your weaknesses. You will understand what you need to work on in order to move forward.

3. Getting rid of information overload

The brain is under constant stress if a person is constantly receiving new information. Excessive activity never gives positive results. No matter how much you want to reach your goal as soon as possible, you need to remember that the body needs rest. Otherwise, performance is reduced.

Important! During the day you need to take regular breaks for 15 minutes. At this point, it is recommended to turn off all sources of information: TV, computer, smartphone, etc. Just sit in peace and quiet.

The hardest thing is to turn off the thoughts. However, meditation will help you with this. You can learn how to do it from books, you can find the list in the article: "". You can also go to yoga classes. There you are guaranteed to get a boost of energy, free your brain and rest your soul. Plus, your body will thank you for a great workout.

4. Fighting fears - do what you are afraid of

Problems arise because of fears and the inability to deal with them. Some are afraid of meeting and communicating with new people, others are afraid to change their usual way of life.

Important! Fear makes life gray, boring and bleak. And most importantly, phobias are the main blocker of personal growth.

To get rid of fear, it must be killed. This can only be done in one way: to do what is scary. Dive headlong into fear, not walk on the edge. Make it a rule to commit a heroic deed every month, and life will change for the better.

5. Invest in yourself, not banks

To earn a lot of money, you need to be a comprehensively developed person. From the very beginning, you need to invest in your education and development. Over time, these investments will begin to bear fruit.

Important! You can't just take, you have to give as well.

You need to invest in:

• education;
• trainings;
• courses;
• trips;
• sport;
• extreme hobbies;
• visiting developmental events, etc.

The experience gained while visiting other countries or communicating with foreigners is much more important and valuable than the money itself. Therefore, try to allocate at least a third of your income to development and growth. Try new foods, read good books in the original on paper, visit interesting exhibitions and performances.

Here example of good training, it's free and it will help you pump up your "skill" of self-confidence.

Important! Do not spare finances for your own improvement.

Here is a good list of books for you: "".

6. Conducting dialogues with oneself

I have found from my own experience that frank conversations with oneself are an effective method of improving the quality of life. Make a list of important questions and set aside at least 15 minutes a day to analyze them and think about answers.

Questions can be varied. For example: “What is stopping me from moving on?” or “Why don’t relations develop in the work team?” etc.

Every day, talk to yourself, have discussions and look for a way out of problem situations. In the end, you will find solutions to problems and move one step forward. At the same time, irrelevant topics should be brushed aside, and pressing questions should be asked.

7. Change of environment

We copy others from childhood. Without this, a person would not be able to fully develop. It depends on the environment how the child will grow up, and what chances for a good life he will receive from his parents and acquaintances.

In adulthood, a person also copies the people around him. But he does it unconsciously. Psychologists say that a person consists of 5 individual individuals who most strongly influence his life.

Surround yourself with strong and successful people. So you can unconsciously copy their behavior, which will help you in your own development.

This does not mean that you should give up less successful friends and acquaintances. Just keep communication with them to a minimum or try to infect them with a desire to develop. You can set common goals and work towards them together.

8. Goals on paper are the key to achieving them

Tasks, new ideas and desired achievements are best written down on paper. This will increase the chance of their implementation by 90%. It sounds unrealistic, but this method really works.

Get yourself a nice notebook and buy a handy pen. Carry them everywhere with you. As soon as a sensible thought comes to mind, immediately fix it on paper so as not to forget. Make an action plan and follow it.

It is possible that not all of the goals on this list will come true. But the most important ones will surely come true thanks to your desire, perseverance and perseverance.

9.Sport - trains the body and develops endurance

A person must improve in all areas.

Important! Only stupid people don't play sports.

Physical exercise is the key to health, beauty and longevity. In addition, regular training gives an incentive to do more and achieve your goals.

Self-development is impossible without sport. Thus, a person is freed from the accumulated physical energy. Also, sport allows energy flows to circulate freely in the astral and physical bodies.

10. Goal setting and prioritization

Self-improvement is impossible without clear life principles and guidelines. Before starting a self-improvement course, you need to decide:

• what do you want from life;
• Who are you cultivating for?
• What would you like to change in your life?
• where are important aspects such as career, family, hobbies, friends, etc.

After answering the questions above, start making a list of goals. There can be any number of points. The main thing is that you really want to make them all a reality.

An important point is the existence of a program or mechanisms to achieve the desired. You have to break down big goals into many small tasks. This is how a scheme is developed, following which your path to your dream will be interesting, effective and fast.

If you develop the right plan for the path to the goal, you will enjoy every second of life. A positive result and changes for the better will not be long in coming.

Conclusion

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