5 essays on growth from the Consilium journal. Featuring Erich Fromm, Maya Angelou, Ludwig Wittgenstein. Each pits three thinkers against one hard question.
One person grows; the other stays put. Fromm says love must keep growing or it dies. Angelou says you cannot unlearn what you have learned. Wittgenstein asks what the silence is doing.
Three thinkers on growth and escape. James says test it against what actually changes. Dostoevsky says your secret motive is waiting. Horney says the idealized self is the first thing to go.
Three thinkers disagree about outgrowing your job. Adler says you're confusing ambition with superiority. Fromm asks if you're in having mode. Musashi says you haven't mastered it yet.
Three thinkers on identity and change over time. Wittgenstein says the earlier self spoke a different language. Hurston says they carried you here. Aristotle asks if the change represents growth.
Three thinkers on outgrowing the people you love. Emerson says growth isn't negotiable. Lorde says expansion at another's cost isn't freedom. Jung says look at what you're leaving.
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