Self-Actualization

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, .... (Transcendentals?)

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. (congruence)
• 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 Experiences are more likely
• identify and give up your defenses blocking the way to self-knowledge.