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The Plateaus and The Climbs
Personal growth is not a series of non-stop climbs. Sound development requires a program providing plateaus where our information is turned into knowledge through experience and then another climb. Plateaus are used for assimilation before starting the next ascent. Each person has their own pattern and must get to the point of reading their graph of climbs and plateaus. Those who try to go up too fast either run out of steam or poorly assimilate their experiences. They develop hollow spots. With this system one can know he has become old… he starts going around the same plateau in a circle without a thought of another climb. When we begin the circling we are old no matter what our chronological age. We can also know when we have reached senility because we start forgetting our way around the circle!
All of life doesn’t move through this cycle as a whole. Therefore, it is important to divide our progress into various natural divisions: e.g., family, career, spiritual, financial, emotional, social, personal development. Each requires its own charting of plateaus and climbs with its own time table.
