Develop Your Potential
Virtually all the dissatisfactions that plague our adult relationships result from patterns that grew in early childhood. And they can be remade by unearthing wisdom from your childhood: 7 Childhood Treasures® that lie within you, buried and undeveloped. Dr. Scott helps you to find the rough ores within, locate and reveal their subtle facets, and polish them to brilliant, blazing gemstones. Your birthright—a treasure chest of assets—waits for you, along with a successful life full of purpose and joy.
Everyone knows at least this one fact about child development: a child grows up. Right? A child develops, transforms over time, and becomes...what? Each of us developed from a child to an adult, correct? Everyone knows that!
Actually, maybe is a more accurate answer. Some of us only developed partially. Some parts grew to adulthood, while others stayed young. Maybe only the body grew up, and other capacities stayed as they were at age two or four or six.
Human development in the young child is, partially, a natural and innate unfolding, which occurs almost regardless of environment, as well as the acquisition of new skill and knowledge through teaching and repetitive practice, through praise and disappointment. And yet there is more to development. Human development is not only a result of these two passive processes. Children are also agents in their own development. You were an active participant in your growth as a young child and here's the best news: You still can be that active agent today.
Each interaction your young-child-self had with another person gave you some of the tools you needed to transform. For example, as a newborn infant, you cried out in the discomfort of hunger. You acted, and then you observed the response. Did someone come to comfort you, to take care of your need? When you were two years old, someone gave you a direct order. Maybe it was harsh or maybe it was more polite. Even if you remember being extremely well-behaved and compliant, I promise you that you said "No" at least once. What happened when you refused to comply with someone else's view of what you should be doing?
From experiences like these, you built who you are as a social and emotional being—as an "inter-actor" with other social beings—using tools the world gave you. This, too, is human development. Woven together with the natural and innate unfolding of some of your abilities, layered between what was shaped in you by praise and disappointment, by teaching and repetitive practice, you gained in knowledge and ability by building a storehouse of self-awareness. But this stockpile you call Self is not supposed to be a pile of river gravel or a heap of dust. It is intended to be a shining treasure chest, glittering with gemstones.
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