What about when you want to not just survive but thrive, reaching your greatest potential?
Achieving self-actualization is about doing just that.
However, the concept didn’t become popular until Maslow began to explore the concept.
What human beings can be, they must be.
They must be true to their own nature.
This need we may call self-actualization… Self-actualization was further studied by psychologist Carl Rogers.
Unlike Maslow, who saw self-actualization as one of many human motivators, Rogers saw self-actualization as ouronlymotivator.
When Maslow explained his theory, he presented 17 characteristics of self-actualization.
Of the 17, he found 10 of Maslow’s characteristics of self-actualization to still be valid today.
It’s about accepting yourself completely for who you are.
Often this purpose is something that will help others.
Instead of relying on assumptions, this comes down to cold, hard facts.
Hence the termcreative spiritbeing about so much more than creating physical things.
Rogers believed to be self-actualized is to be a “fully functioning person.”
(Here’show to increase your emotional intelligenceif this is an area you’re lacking in.)
(Here are a fewways to practice self-love.)
In knowing that, you choose to live as harmoniously with others as you’re free to.
Maslow believed that Abraham Lincoln, Eleanor Roosevelt, and Albert Einstein were examples of self-actualized people.
While all incredible figures in history, anyone can self-actualize when they are motivated to.
