Where pride thrives growth is impossible. It stifles a teachable spirit and with the absence of humility is found an inability to learn and grow. Pride wreaks all sorts of havoc. There can be received no help, kind-hearted aid or correction of any kind. Pride stunts any possibility of growth, for the one who suffers from it bears no hope of ever becoming something other than what he already is. He will always remain the creature he is, unable to become something else, for that something else requires growth. And growth is more than change, for change by itself, is simply change. But change, under the watchful eye of character’s continuity, produces growth. As C.S. Lewis wrote in They Asked For a Paper, “Mere change is not growth. Growth is the synthesis of change and continuity, and where there is no continuity there is no growth.” Growth requires patience, perseverance and discipline. Pride finds no need for any of these friends and chooses instead to be content in what has always been.