Personal development: Human imperfection forces us to grow June 15, 2017
Posted by Dennis Mellersh in Personal Development Potential.Tags: Eric Hoffer, personal development, personal development potential, personal growth, philosophy, self-actualization, writing
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If people were perfect, like some aspects of nature, there would obviously be no need for us to pursue personal growth programs and realize our potential.
Our imperfect nature, as interpreted by Eric Hoffer, creates a need within us to improve ourselves.
The negative of being imperfect creates the positive ambition for greater self-actualization:
“Nature attains perfection, but man never does. There is a perfect ant, a perfect bee, but man is perpetually unfinished…in the attempt to finish himself, man becomes a creator…the incurable unfinishedness keeps man perpetually immature, perpetually capable of learning and growing.” (1)
(1) Eric Hoffer, Reflections on the Human Condition, Harper & Row, Publishers, 1973
— Dennis Mellersh
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