Personal Growth and Self

The concept of Increase entails temporal continuity and comparison.  Thus, so, too, does that of Growth, which is Biological Increase.  Furthermore, that an Increase constitutes an improvement requires an evaluative comparison.  Thus, any concept of praiseworthy Personal Growth requires a concept of Self that can be the bearer of temporal continuity and evaluative comparison.  Hence, concepts of Self as either fragmentary or fixed, e. g. Hume's, Spinoza's, or Kant's, are inadequate to any concept of Personal Growth