Growth vs goals

I have asked perplexity to summarize a video on Non-Narrative thinking and something in this paragraph caught my attention.

The video recommends “self-anthropology”—regularly observing your thoughts, feelings, and energy shifts with curiosity, journaling these experiences for a week, then drawing connections and hypotheses for change.

This approach develops heightened awareness and makes experimenting with new paths easier, cultivating growth rather than fixed goals.

I have never noticed growth being used in opposition to (fixed) goals. But here it is and I cannot dissagree that there are grounds for that, but oh how subtle is that!!

Growth here seems to mean growing from the current state using available possibilities, not