The role of the environment in personal development

Question from the Internet:

“Does the change of environment help in the maximization of potential?”

Yes, as we are the product of our environment. Placing ourselves into a human environment is similar to plating a seed into the soil. The more fertile that soil is, the more we have the ideal conditions to grow and the more we can maximalize our potential.

Our human environment — regardless of what we think or do — determines our values, goals, aspiration and our behaviour. Consciously or unconsciously we follow the overall direction of the environment, constantly sitting on the actual “bandwagon” everybody else is following. And even when we seemingly go against the prevalent direction and values, we are still influenced by the same environment but only in an opposite way.

As a result, our only truly free choice in life is choosing and then actively supporting and strengthening the environment we want to influence and shape us.

As we can see, today we have a big problem, as the general environment we have to live and bring up our children in is very negative, it is without any truly humane values or goals and it is leading to self-destruction, depression and general emptiness.

Thus today it is not enough to “choose” an environment, instead, we actually have to create and grow a completely new human environment that is founded on completely different values and pursues a completely different form of mutual interconnection and cooperation between people.

In order to build this new environment, we have to abandon all our inherently arbitrary, self-serving, self-justifying, subjective and exploitative ideologies and philosophies and have to learn how to rebuild human interconnections based on Nature’s finely balanced and mutually integrated template.