The cucumber can only grow. Wet earth and the sun contribute to this, but it is impossible to train and develop by external procedures: the cucumber grows according to its internal program. And a person has more opportunities, a person’s development, training of his body or soul contributes to the growth of the body, the growth of soulfulness, the growth of spiritual depth, flexibility or stamina. Anyone who trains their body knows that certain workouts contribute to muscle growth. On the other hand, it is possible to develop only that for which the necessary prerequisites have been created by the process of growth. No one will develop masculinity in a one-year-old baby — he has not grown enough yet, the base has not appeared for this.
In man, growth and development support each other and succeed each other in stages. This is reminiscent of the alternation of horizontal and vertical movement: knowledge and skills are accumulated (horizontal growth occurs), then there is a sharp jump, a transition to a new level (there is a development, a jump upwards), then this level is mastered (growth as a horizontal movement)
Growth processes in a person go with maximum intensity in childhood. With age, both physical and intellectual growth slows down, and from a certain period, the majority begins to go in the opposite direction: intelligence decreases, memory weakens, muscles gradually atrophy.