What is a self-development?
To the question I have got various answers. Most of the people think learning something new or reading a book or travelling can be a way to develop yourself. And I totally agree with all of them hence any of them is a kind of communication. You either interact with people or with a writer or with the nature or yourself. So there is always an answer IN the question. You need to notice it in. SELF - development but not egoism.
You develop yourself, your recognition of your own understanding and the multiple functioning of a human being: YOU.
So how can you do that?
You can do that if you accept others as they are and you accept yourself as you are. I see how many people struggle with the desire to love themselves.
I hear and see almost everywhere," just love yourself", " love yourself". And you don't know how because you are a human being as all the others who have the same fighting.
Being an English teacher helps me communicate with different people of different nationalities. Therefore I am thankful for it. As any communication gives you new energy, new knowledge, new views, experience or recognition of your own personality you should keep doing that. I think this is the key to your self- development. As a result of communication in English with my Russian student I got a film recommendation which changed my life, moreover it made me recall my forgotten dreams.
So if you want to develop yourself, please start from loving others and being humane. You are already self - developed because you are a human being. You are unique. Recognize yourself in others.
And to the everybody's answer what is my mission in this world I would say definitely it is to love more and more day by day even if it is hard.