Growth: Capacity, Perspective, Variables, and the State

Cognition

Growth is the natural tendency for things to evolve in the world. Every living thing grows in size as time passes: animals, plants. But people - we tend to grow in other ways too - ways that are not visible. Aquiring new skills is one way to grow - as an individual - you can exist in forms outside of your corporeal vessel - as manifestations of computer programs, as ideas, as drawings, and thoughts - other forms of growth.

For the sake of simplicity - let's call these manifestations variables. Variables can represent anything in the world - people, ideas, thoughts, combinations, situations, skills, relationships, calculations. And let's call the sum-total of variables in a given context the state.

Your ability to hold multiple variables at a time, let's call that your capacity. So we could then argue that the invisible growth is the development of one's capacity - in other words, your ability to hold multiple variables at a time: the number of people you can help at a time, the number of words you can articulate and understand, the number of problems you can solve simultaneously, the number of innovations you can birth, the number of relationships you can sustain, the number of skills you have.

Finally, being able to navigate through these variables would be your ability to hold multiple perspectives simultaneously - to see through many eyes, and to identify the capacity of others and the variables which may be contained within.

Pause, understand the state, identify the variables from all possible perspectives, and then develop your capacity to hold deeper and more complex variables, and you can't help but grow.

March 8, 2026, 4:13 p.m.

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