What is growth? This is not only an anthropometric indicator

2024 Author: Henry Conors | [email protected]. Last modified: 2024-02-12 02:46

There are many phenomena and things in the world that a person simply understands. But when the time comes to explain something to someone, certain problems and snags may arise. In this article, I would like to talk about what growth is.

Definition of concept

So what is growth? This is primarily a process of enlargement, which is applied to the entire body or individual organs (if we talk, for example, about a person). However, this is too one-sided an explanation. There is more than one meaning of the word growth:

1. This is an increase in number, percentage - for example, the growth of cities, industry.
2. This is a kind of strengthening, strengthening - for example, an increase in activity.
3. It can also be developmental improvement - for example, mastery.
4. Human height.

About the person

So, if the term "height" is applied to a person, then this is the length of his body, which is measured from the highest point of the head (crown) to the plane of the feet. It is worth saying that a person’s height is the most important indicator that can fully tell about the degree of his physical development in relation to otherparameters.

About numbers

Also, some people may have a question: "How tall is normal?" There is no single indicator, such that it is right for all times and peoples. It will be interesting that the average height of male Muscovites a hundred years ago was 147 centimeters, 50 years ago - 157 cm, today these figures are 170 cm. Also, these figures may vary depending on the nation. So, representatives of the Negroid race are on average higher than Europeans, and Asians are lower. Therefore, it makes no sense to talk about exact numbers.

About personality

There is also another concept - personal growth. These are some positive changes that occur in the human soul. This is a kind of strengthening of the inner core, all-round development, passion for what you love. All these nuances make up the personal growth of a person. V. L. Levi correctly said this: “If a person has more interests, incentives for life, hobbies, and, accordingly, the semantic content of life, this all means that he is growing personally.” As for the criteria, here they are subjective, and the degree of such growth can be assessed personally by each person. There is no single indicator by which we can say with confidence that this person has grown personally!

About spirituality

There is another concept - spiritual growth. It rather concerns the religious sphere, human spirituality. Spirituality itself consists of four main pillars: faith, love, peace of mind and awareness. If nothing slows down a person (panicparents, lack of faith in oneself, escape from reality, or suppression of one's own feelings and emotions), he will grow and develop spiritually all the time. It is worth saying that spiritual growth is the skill of achieving maximum peace of mind, the skill of unrequited love for everything and everyone around. And, of course, this concept is often associated with love for God as the only creator of everything that surrounds a person.

About the economy

The next concept, which can also be considered in the framework of our article, is economic growth. Here scientists distinguish several of its interpretations. To be brief, the definition of the concept is as follows: it is an increase in gross domestic product per capita. There are three types of economic growth:

1. Intensive, i.e. fast, based on the use of the benefits of technological progress.
2. Extensive. This is a kind of increase in the amount of resources that are usually used in the production process.
3. Mixed, i.e. a combination of the two types described above.

It is also worth mentioning that in the economy, as, indeed, in other areas of life, pure forms are very rare, most often we are dealing with mixed ones.