Understand yourself better. Grow in your own direction.
IGY brings together a visual knowledge system and a free self-improvement book, currently available as interconnected articles. Explore your thoughts, feelings, and actions, question familiar beliefs, and make choices with greater clarity.
Explore the Human System
Understand what shapes your growth.
How IGY Works
Explore ideas. Connect with yourself. Grow your own way.
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Step 1: Explore the Ideas
Discover six perspectives on personal growth.
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Step 2: Connect to Your Life
See how your thoughts, feelings, and actions connect.
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Step 3: Find Your Own Way
Try a small change, notice what you learn, and choose what works for you.
Everything Is Connected
Core Ideas of IGY
Explore the ideas that help us understand ourselves and create change.
Human Potential in a Person is Unlimited
While understanding probabilities is crucial for navigating life’s challenges, belief in one’s potential is essential. If you have a positive…
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Life – A Game of Expectations vs Reality
Every time we encounter an obstacle we can ask: is this a Game of Self challenge or a Game of Life one? Is the problem in my head or based in…
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Life Direction and How to Choose Your Next Move
Life is a series of good times and bad times. This is life direction – a powerful force that says where you’re coming from is what you’re moving…
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Love without Expectations
What can be a nuanced perspective on love? By challenging traditional beliefs and emphasizing the importance of self-love as well as a realistic…
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How to Overcome Inertia and not Feel Stuck in Life
The most constant force in our lives is Inertia. We delay change, avoid conflict and stick to what works, even if it doesn’t work well. It’s so…
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Space, Spectrums and Life Balance
Balance is a myth! There is no law of the universe, society or psychology that says balance has a sacred place in this world. Sometimes it works,…
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Morality and the Fear of Being a Bad Person
Morality is not always absolute and can vary across cultures and individuals. Morality, while important, should not be the sole foundation for your…
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The Problem with Numbers
Many struggle to understand the true significance of numbers. While we may excel in mathematical calculations, our intuition about numbers and their…
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The Power of Structure and How to Change Your Habits
Life is kinda difficult to analyze without a bias. We’re stuck right in the middle, everything is wrapped around in emotions and whatever…
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When Is the Time to Change?
If you want to make a good change in your life but don’t know if the time is right? This objectively researched article has all the advice you…
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Money and Job vs Business
The emotions related to money can be a powerful barrier to financial success. It’s often rooted in deep-seated beliefs about wealth, poverty…
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Work-Life Balance
A common myth suggests that work and personal life should be separate, each serving distinct purposes. This mindset often leads to a futile…
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Human Energy Levels
You bring different resources into your daily life. Some are Game of Life based like sports, good sleep, and healthy food. Others, like your…
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What Is Religion and Which Religions End up Popular
Religion is Faith turned into a story, trying to spread its story genes endlessly and outcompete every other story, including any other strong…
Read moreBusiness Ideas that Don’t Exist in Our Minds
What do you want from a business – to be happy (do what you love… or love what you do) and be profitable. To be happy is a personal thing. Let’s…
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The “Car Ownership”
Driving a car is a drain of time and energy but is a money saver, right? No! An analysis of Car ownership from a financial standpoint reveals…
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Productivity, Creativity, Motivation & being in Flow
When we started I Grow Younger, I thought that productivity would be a central topic and being in “Flow” while searching for your peak performance –…
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The Ugly Truth – It’s Actually a Dare!
“One of the saddest lessons of history is this: If we’ve been bamboozled long enough, we tend to reject any evidence of the bamboozle. We’re no…
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What Is Intuition, How to Develop and Trust It
“Your Intuition knows what to do. The trick is getting your head to shut up so you can hear.” — Louise Smith “The intuitive mind is a sacred gift and…
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Organized Chaos Helps You Develop Ultimate Skills
Invention, it must be humbly admitted, does not consist in creating out of void, but out of chaos – Mary Shelley (This article is written from the…
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The Road to Self-worth and Self-love Is … Cheating
What can be a nuanced perspective on love? By challenging traditional beliefs and emphasizing the importance of self-love as well as a realistic…
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Time Management Is not a Skill – It Holds You Back
How often do you have Time for thoughts? “If only I had more time in the day…” “Once *this specific shit* is over, I’ll have more time for what I…
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Freedom and How to Make Good Life Choices
Long-Term Freedom is not just about making more money or achieving greater status. It’s about making meaningful choices that destroy our barriers in…
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Trap-words – How Language Use Shapes Who We Are
I Grow Younger is built on the science that the way we think, read and write (including about self-help) is both driven and limited by the language…
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Scaling a Business Is the Path to Freedom
Scaling your business isn’t just about increasing profits; it’s about freedom and creating possibilities for yourself. By expanding your reach…
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Thinking “Out of the Box” Is not What You Think
Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere. – Albert Einstein This post’s title was supposed to be “Change the…
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Is X Hours of Sleep Enough?
No. If you have to ask such a question, the answer is no. 6 hours is not enough, if you have to ask. (192,000 people a year, google “is 6 hours…
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The Problem with Self-help Books and Podcasts
Many struggle to understand the true significance of numbers. While we may excel in mathematical calculations, our intuition about numbers and…
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Issues with the Social Justice Movement
Deal with the world as it is, not how you’d like it to be. Jack Welch What is Social Justice? The Social Justice movement is a massive one. Its…
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Going to University Is Not What You Think
There were days when universities were the only way to acquire knowledge and meet people. Today the university is outdated both as a concept and…
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Why Self-discipline Hinders Personal Growth
You were probably taught from a young age you need discipline to achieve success in life. Discipline is following specific rules, set by your…
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The Education System Has to Be Destroyed
Education either functions as an instrument to bring about conformity or freedom. Let’s give our children freedom. Trish Millines Dziko I…
Read moreWisdom
“Resist. Every time you feel the urge to put something in a Box, resist. Every time other people and the world impose their Box-based thinking upon you, resist.”
Meet the person behind IGY
Kalin Karakehayov
Founder of I Grow Younger
Hi, I’m Kalin. After building a startup that grew into an eight-figure company, I shifted my focus to a self-funded nonprofit and a different question: what does it really mean to grow?
At I Grow Younger, we’ve spent years exploring ideas that challenge conventional thinking and open new possibilities for personal growth. I’d love to hear what they spark in you.
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Find answers to common questions about IGY and its resources.
IGY stands for I Grow Younger - a free knowledge project about understanding ourselves and creating meaningful change. It brings together ideas from psychology, neuroscience, and lived experience to make personal growth easier to understand and apply.
IGY is for anyone curious about how we think, learn, and grow. Explore resources for your own personal growth, ideas for parents, and content that supports children’s learning and development. No specialist knowledge is needed.
Visit Where to Start for a selection of introductory articles. Begin with a topic that feels relevant to your life, explore it at your own pace, and try applying one idea in an everyday situation.
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