"constant self-improvement" is acceptable and usable in written English.
This phrase can be used in any situation where one is encouraging someone to keep pushing themselves to learn and grow. For example: "If you keep up a practice of constant self-improvement, you will find yourself much better equipped to face any challenge that comes your way."
A senior administrator at my university is a strong believer in the need for faculty to have an attitude of constant self-improvement.
So if you favor a vast wilderness of formats, a free market of ideas, and the endless tail-eating of free and open source software's constant self-improvement, go with TechCrunch's recommendation of Obama or even McCain.
Today, the veneer of "body positivity" conceals an insidious desire for constant self-improvement.
Chernow presents Washington as "a man capable of constant self-improvement", rising from a provincial childhood to the presidency of the United States.
For her, soccer is a constant act of self-improvement.
LIKE the bronzed and barely clad bodies that saunter up and down Collins Avenue and Ocean Drive, South Beach is in a constant state of self-improvement.
Sue's constant quest for self-improvement included attaining, in 2009, a master's degree in Shakespeare authorship studies, a subject on which she gave talks and presentations, including at the Globe theatre in London.
Beginning in 1862, my relatives and Oneida's other Bible Communists — their term — built the Mansion House as a bricks-and-mortar embodiment of their secular ideals, which proved more enduring than their religious beliefs: an openness to new ideas, a constant striving for self-improvement, the primacy of reason and the value of curiosity.
They may be the best, and increasingly viewed as perhaps the best ever, but that will not sate their constant desire for self-improvement.
"But instead of studying tactical diagrams until 3am, why aren't we reading Carol Dweck, or the neuroscience of the teenage brain?" Just as sports coaches are becoming polymaths, teachers are adopting coaching's focus on constant, self-reflective improvement.
In a culture moving faster and faster, it seems contagious and desirable to be in a constant mode of comparison, self-improvement and achievement.
