Personal progress is great for your motivation and self-confidence because it's something you worked hard for. It's earned and well deserved.
Personal progress is a selfless act because you are investing in yourself as a way to become more valuable and more useful to others and that could be the ultimate way to fulfill your purpose as a human being.
Achieving your potential means nothing more than becoming the most useful you can be and becoming a high contributor to life.
From a humanity level, progress is important for our survival.
At this level, human progress means defeating our own limitations and becoming the masters of our fate. We need something -we build it; we can't do something -we create a tool; we don't know something -we learn it; if there is a problem -we fix it; if something is missing -we invent it.
The more we progress - the more successful we are as a species.
The more we improve the more chances we are going to be around for longer.
Second, progress is self-perpetual, one small improvement opens the door to more positive results.
Collaboration is the ultimate form of wisdom.
Our collective progress contributes to the eradication of needless pain and suffering, which could lead to us being more united, less conflict, and an increased sense of shared success.
Collective progress is made from stacked layers of individual effort.
At this level of progress doesn't belong to anyone but is made and shared by everyone.
If people would realize how much we can achieve by working together, progress would become the catalyzer that unites us.
We tend to see our progress inside the group or the tribe that we happen to belong to, but because we don't dare to step outside of it, we fail to see the big picture. In fact the more successful we are inside the group, the more divided and separated we see ourself from anybody who lives outside of it.