What does it mean that schema evolution is how you grow?

Personal growth is largely the process of replacing less accurate schemas with more accurate ones.

Example: Five years ago you believed 'saying yes to everything builds your reputation.' Today you believe 'strategic no is the highest-leverage career move.' The distance between those two schemas — the old one replaced by a more accurate one — is not just something that happened alongside your growth. It IS your growth. Every meaningful change you have made maps to a schema that evolved.

Try this: Pick three beliefs you held five years ago that you no longer hold. For each, write: (1) the old schema, (2) the trigger that destabilized it, (3) the new schema that replaced it, (4) what changed in your behavior as a result. You now have a concrete growth log — proof that your development is schema evolution made visible.