What is personal growth schemas?

Personal growth schemas is a concept in personal epistemology: 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.

This concept is part of Phase 16 (Schema Evolution) in the How to Think curriculum, which builds the epistemic infrastructure for schema evolution.