The Metrics of Growth 1
By whatever name--betterment, enhancement, advancement, improvement--growth is the criterion by which to gauge one's practice of xenanthropy and the value thereof. Growth usually implies a broadening of some aspect of oneself, and this broadening usually has an exponential effect upon one's potential or one's horizons. It is something which requires stimulation--an entropic process which feeds upon entropic circumstance--but not just any stimulation will do.
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