Countries, companies and common people are striving for development. Individuals are seeking a better life and are determined to achieve their goals. Achieving one's goals and living a better life is what one aspires for and happiness is the product of the reaction between one's ambition and achievement. Growth can be in the form of better wealth, fame, control or power in the society or even achieving one's self actualization needs in the form of wisdom. In what form it is achieved it is never undesirable.
This was illustrated by the Prince Dance Group, the winners of India's Got Talent, a reality show aired on Indian television. This group comprised poor farmers who toiled hard to earn a day's meal. The reality show was a turning point in their lives. They won the adulation of all the viewers. After winning the contest, they got a sea of opportunities to perform in India as well as overseas. This changed their lives for the better and they now live in better conditions and lead a happier life.
They saw growth come to them in the form of wealth, fame and success. Their life was rendered more productive. Performing arts acted as a spur for them to produce something new in the dance forms they endorsed. They showed the world a dance style in which formations played a major role.
Another example which removes the cloud from this issue and illustrates the fact that growth clearly is necessary for one to lead a happy and productive life is the growth of human beings in the course of their lives. We grow spiritually and intellectually. Our actions serve as an example which juniors could follow. From infancy to adulthood we are struck with numerous ideas. These ideas when presented in their raw form in childhood or adolescence seem vague. As we grow they take a better shape and it becomes possible to bring these virtual ideas to reality in the form of inventions or successful companies.
Hence, as elucidated, growth brings us happiness and makes our life more productive. Often growth is surreptitious and we don't even realise it and aspire for more. Nobody ostracizes growth. Growth can lift a person from the state of penury to opulence. It can convert a hedonist to a successful social worker and a frivolous person into an erudite. It goes unpolemically contested that growth is the root of happiness and productivity in life.
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