Personal growth: keep learning when work takes all your time
Learning, skills, reading and new challenges. Learning often stops when a busy season starts, and the season never ends.
By Edward Korytskyi, founder of Elegix · Updated · 4 min read
Growth is more than your job
Work teaches you a lot, but only what your role needs. Personal growth is learning you choose: a language, a skill, books outside your field, a challenge that scares you a little. It keeps life interesting and opens doors your job won't.
Signs your growth score is low
- You haven't finished a book in months.
- You keep saving courses you never start.
- Every week feels the same as the last.
- You're good at your job but bored.
Small habits that keep you growing
20 pages a day
Before bed, instead of the phone. That's around a book a month.
One skill per quarter
Choose one thing to learn for three months and drop the rest of the list.
Learn in public
Share what you learn with a friend or online. Teaching makes it stick.
Tie it to a goal
Link the habit to a concrete goal, as in how to set goals for every area of life.
Not sure where your personal growth stands? Rate all 6 areas in the free Life Balance Check, or read how to fill in the Wheel of Life.