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DanQ  ·  4324 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Have You Reached Self-Actualization?

Maslow's ideas about self-actualisation are admirable, but ultimately flawed, I feel. Part of our potential is that we are able to perpetually find more ways to grow and improve: to truly self-actualise, we must reach a point at which we can't find any way to go any further. Even if such a thing does exist, and I'm not sure that it does, then it sounds like hell to me.

I enjoyed much of his other work, but the whole "self-actualisation" thing doesn't sit comfortably with me.