Concept associated with Abraham Maslow.

Self-actualizing people are involved in a cause outside their own skin - having a calling. They devote their lives to the search for the ~14 [Being Values]: truth, beauty, goodness, perfection, simplicity, comprehensiveness, human love, ....

Behaviors leading to Self Actualization:

• experiencing fully, vividly, selflessly

• making a series of progression choices rather than regression choices: being honest with oneself and others, etc.

• recognize you are a unique self, and express your uniqueness consciously

• When in doubt, be honest rather than not

• dare to be different, unpopular, nonconformist, if that's how you feel

• actualize/achieve your potential - work to do well the thing you want to do

• set up conditions so that [Peak Experience](s) are more likely

• identify and give up your defenses blocking the way to self-knowledge.

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