What are the main inner dimensions to grow in as a human being?

Maximilian Rehn
1 min readFeb 25, 2023

Here are some inner dimensions that are part of growing as a human being.

  1. State: how good you feel, ranging from depression to euphoria
  2. Depth: how much experience you have in different States. Kind of life wisdom
  3. Complexity: general intelligence, how complex thoughts, patterns and tasks can you understand
  4. Symbols: knowledge, language, stuff you learn, mathematics, music

You can develop in all these. I got these four from metamodern ideas. Personally, I would add a fifth:

5. Awareness: how present you are, how well you perceive stimuli, inner and external

How can I train these different dimensions?

  1. Take care of your physical and mental health.
  2. Be brave, take on life experience, say yes, honestly, to life
  3. Challenge yourself, apply your mind and body to difficult problems
  4. Read, discuss, and learn about topics that are stimulating for you.
  5. Mindfulness practice or meditation, learn to notice and radically accept reality as it is in this moment. Needs daily practice in my experience.

Thanks for reading.

The golden ratio, or golden spiral as seen in a natural shell.

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