Personal Learning and Growth. How we do it? How does it happen? How does it progress? We all like to improve ourselves, growing to become a more informed, more intelligent, more discerning, more discriminating, and overall a more enlightened person; moreover we like learning important new skills, learning things we always wanted to know about, and learning brand new things to enrich our lives - not to mention saving our jobs. That you agree with at least part of this is established by your reading this note and generally looking out there on the Internet for new and interesting ideas. We posit here what I have long regarded as the reasons, the how, the why, and the results of new learning and growth. They are uncomplicated and, because of this, open to dissent. That's ok. Let's get something on paper. Then we can fix it, as needed. Our small observations on personal growth can be classified by a few simple words, all beginning with the letter "E."