#selfactualization — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #selfactualization, aggregated by home.social.
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So let us look for beauty and grace, for love and friendship, for that which is creative and birth-giving and soul-stretching. Let us dare to laugh at ourselves, healthy, affirmative laughter. Only when we take ourselves lightly can we take ourselves seriously, so that we are given the courage to say, “Yes! I dare disturb the universe.”
Madeleine L'Engle (1918-2007) American writer
Speech (1983-11-16), “Dare To Be Creative,” Lecture, Library of Congress, Washington, DCMore about this quote: wist.info/lengle-madeleine/838…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #lengle #madeleinelengle #agency #beauty #change #courage #creativity #disturbing #gravitas #humility #humor #laughter #lightheartedness #selfactualization #selfaffirmation #selfappreciation #selfchallenging #selfesteem #selfimage #selfimportance #selfliberation #selfregard.selftrust #selfunderstanding #selfworth #senseofhumor #stretchgoals
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The Pandemic May Have Changed Young People for the Better: A Positive Take on The ‘COVID Generation
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The Pandemic May Have Changed Young People for the Better: A Positive Take on The ‘COVID Generation
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@zkat
Of course UBI it is designed to help people thrive.When you're no longer required to work an exhausting, uninspiring job merely to survive, you have the necessary freedom/space to develop and actualize yourself.
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@zkat
Of course UBI it is designed to help people thrive.When you're no longer required to work an exhausting, uninspiring job merely to survive, you have the necessary freedom/space to develop and actualize yourself.
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If ‘Free Pianos’ Show Up in Your Feed, Don’t Be Duped: Industry Pioneers Warn Against Them
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If ‘Free Pianos’ Show Up in Your Feed, Don’t Be Duped: Industry Pioneers Warn Against Them
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Boy Selling Towel That Stays Cool for 2 Hours Wins $200,000 in Prize Money
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Boy Selling Towel That Stays Cool for 2 Hours Wins $200,000 in Prize Money
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A quotation from Philip K. Dick
The authentic human being is one of us who instinctively knows what he should not do and, in addition, will balk at doing it. He will refuse to do it, even if this brings down dread consequences to him and those whom he loves. This, to me, is the ultimately heroic trait of ordinary people. They say “no” to the tyrant and they calmly take the consequences of this resistance. Their deeds may be small, and almost always unnoticed, unmarked by history. Their names are not remembered, nor did these authentic humans expect their names to be remembered. I see their authenticity in an odd way: not in their willingness to perform great heroic deeds, but in their quiet refusals to commit villainies. In essence, they cannot be compelled to be what they are not.
Philip K. Dick (1928-1982) American writer
Speech (1978) “How To Build A Universe That Doesn’t Fall Apart Two Days Later”More about this quote: wist.info/dick-philip-k/39294/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #philipkdick #philipkdickquotes #authenticity #civildisobedience #evil #heroism #humannature #humanity #ordinarypeople #rebellion #resistance #selfactualization #tyranny #virtue #wrongdoing
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A quotation from Philip K. Dick
The authentic human being is one of us who instinctively knows what he should not do and, in addition, will balk at doing it. He will refuse to do it, even if this brings down dread consequences to him and those whom he loves. This, to me, is the ultimately heroic trait of ordinary people. They say “no” to the tyrant and they calmly take the consequences of this resistance. Their deeds may be small, and almost always unnoticed, unmarked by history. Their names are not remembered, nor did these authentic humans expect their names to be remembered. I see their authenticity in an odd way: not in their willingness to perform great heroic deeds, but in their quiet refusals to commit villainies. In essence, they cannot be compelled to be what they are not.
Philip K. Dick (1928-1982) American writer
Speech (1978) “How To Build A Universe That Doesn’t Fall Apart Two Days Later”More about this quote: wist.info/dick-philip-k/39294/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #philipkdick #philipkdickquotes #authenticity #civildisobedience #evil #heroism #humannature #humanity #ordinarypeople #rebellion #resistance #selfactualization #tyranny #virtue #wrongdoing
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A quotation from Eleanor Roosevelt
Perhaps that’s what we all had to do — think out for ourselves what we could believe and how we could live by it. And so I came to the conclusion that you had to use this life to develop the very best that you could develop.
Eleanor Roosevelt (1884–1962) First Lady of the US (1933–1945), politician, diplomat, activist
Essay (1951-12), “This I Believe: Growth that Starts from Thinking,” on Edward R. Murrow, This I Believe, CBS RadioMore about this quote: wist.info/roosevelt-eleanor/82…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #eleanorroosevelt #belief #beliefsystem #besteffort #doyourbest #excellence #goodbehavior #meaningoflife #moralcode #personalcode #selfactualization #selfchallenging #selfcorrection #selfdevleopment #selfexamination #selfimprovement #selfquestioning #selfrespect
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But in reading great literature I become a thousand men and yet remain myself. Like the night sky in the Greek poem, I see with a myriad eyes, but it is still I who see. Here, as in worship, in love, in moral action, and in knowing, I transcend myself; and am never more myself than when I do.
C. S. Lewis (1898-1963) English writer, literary scholar, lay theologian [Clive Staples Lewis]
An Experiment in Criticism, Epilogue (1961)More about this quote: wist.info/lewis-cs/82426/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #cslewis #books #literature #reading #selfactualization #selfimprovement #transcendence
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But in reading great literature I become a thousand men and yet remain myself. Like the night sky in the Greek poem, I see with a myriad eyes, but it is still I who see. Here, as in worship, in love, in moral action, and in knowing, I transcend myself; and am never more myself than when I do.
C. S. Lewis (1898-1963) English writer, literary scholar, lay theologian [Clive Staples Lewis]
An Experiment in Criticism, Epilogue (1961)More about this quote: wist.info/lewis-cs/82426/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #cslewis #books #literature #reading #selfactualization #selfimprovement #transcendence
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Bride Goes Viral on Wedding Night Dancing While Doing Vital Cystic Fibrosis Treatment (WATCH)
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Bride Goes Viral on Wedding Night Dancing While Doing Vital Cystic Fibrosis Treatment (WATCH)
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Success isn't about achieving, it's about *becoming* who you were meant to be. #SelfActualization
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CW: implied violence
DIY or bust
Prayer Jacking - The Shivering Truth (2020)
https://youtu.be/Kbk-3l_EthA#TheShiveringTruth #AdultSwim #Animation #Autonomy #SelfActualization #Agency #DIY
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A quotation from Ralph Waldo Emerson
God will not have his work made manifest by cowards.
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) American essayist, lecturer, poet
Essay (1841), “Self-Reliance,” Essays: First Series, No. 2More about this quote: wist.info/emerson-ralph-waldo/…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #emerson #ralphwaldoemerson #courage #cowardice #God #humanity #selfactualization
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Traveling the World Getting One Million Hugs Helped Me Heal After Losing My Brother on 9/11
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Traveling the World Getting One Million Hugs Helped Me Heal After Losing My Brother on 9/11
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Are you #SelfActualized or do you have no idea what that means?
#PersonalIdentity #SelfActualization #MirroredSelf #SelfIntrospection #SelfImprovement
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Are you #SelfActualized or do you have no idea what that means?
#PersonalIdentity #SelfActualization #MirroredSelf #SelfIntrospection #SelfImprovement
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Top New Years Resolutions for Americans Feature Financial and Health Goals – Poll Shares Some Hacks for 2026
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Top New Years Resolutions for Americans Feature Financial and Health Goals – Poll Shares Some Hacks for 2026
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A quotation from Ursula K. Le Guin
It’s like all the time I was working keeping house and raising the kids and making love and earning our keep I thought there was going to come a time or there would be some place where all of it came together. Like it was words I was saying, all my life, all the kinds of work, just a word here and a word there, but finally all the words would make a sentence, and I could read the sentence. I would have made my soul and know what it was for. But I have made my soul and I don’t know what to do with it. Who wants it?
Ursula K. Le Guin (1929-2018) American writer
Story (1995-11), “Ether, OR,” Isaac Asimov’s Science Fiction, Vol. 19More about this quote: wist.info/leguin-ursula-k/8061…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #ursulaleguin #ursulakleguin #gettingold #growingold #meaning #meaningoflife #memory #oldage #retrospect #selfactualization #soul
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So while our art cannot, as we wish it could, save us from wars, privation, envy, greed, old age, or death, it can revitalize us amidst it all.
Ray Bradbury (1920-2012) American writer, futurist, fabulist
Zen in the Art of Writing, Preface (1994)More info about this quote: wist.info/bradbury-ray/79865/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #raybradbury #art #artist #composing #creation #creativity #music #revitalization #selfactualization #selfaffirmation #selfcare #selfexpression #selfpreservation #writing
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A quotation from Robert Louis Stevenson
If we are indeed here to perfect and complete our own natures, and grow larger, stronger, and more sympathetic against some nobler career in the future, we had all best bestir ourselves to the utmost while we have the time. To equip a dull, respectable person with wings would be but to make a parody of an angel.
Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894) Scottish essayist, novelist, poet
Essay (1878-03), “Crabbed Age and Youth,” Cornhill Magazine, Vol. 38More info about this quote: wist.info/stevenson-robert-lou…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #RobertLouisStevenson #angel #effort #meaningoflife #perfection #selfactualization #selfimprovement #vigor
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A quotation from Candice Bergen
I used to believe that marriage would diminish me, reduce my options. That you had to be someone less to live with someone else when, of course, you have to be someone more.
Candice Bergen (b. 1946) American actress
Knock Wood, “Starting Over” (1984)Sourcing, notes: wist.info/bergen-candice/4764/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #candicebergen #marriage #partnership #selfactualization #selfimprovement #steppingup
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A quotation from Bertrand Russell
The happiness that is genuinely satisfying is accompanied by the fullest exercise of our faculties, and the fullest realization of the world in which we live.
Bertrand Russell (1872-1970) English mathematician and philosopher
Conquest of Happiness, Part 1, ch. 7 “The Sense of Sin” (1930)Sourcing, notes: wist.info/russell-bertrand/782…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #bertrandrussell #effort #engagement #happiness #personaleffort #satisfaction #selfactualization #selfimprovement
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A quotation from Terry Pratchett
If you don’t turn your life into a story, you just become a part of someone else’s story.
Terry Pratchett (1948-2015) English author
Discworld No. 28, The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents, ch. 8 [Malicia] (2008)Sourcing, notes: wist.info/pratchett-terry/5956…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #terrypratchett #discworld #control #narrative #protagonist #selfactualization #story
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Awakening from Autopilot - Breaking Free from Routine and Truly Living
https://youtu.be/uh7kX1LyXB4
#SelfActualization #PersonalGrowth #MindsetShift #LiveWithPurpose #BreakTheRoutine #Motivation #Philosophy #Stoicism #Psychology #Maslow #Jung #EmbraceChange #LifeLessons #OvercomeFear #Momentum #MoritaTherapy #WakeUpCall #DeepThinking #Wisdom -
A quotation from Philip K. Dick
The authentic human being is one of us who instinctively knows what he should not do and, in addition, will balk at doing it. He will refuse to do it, even if this brings down dread consequences to him and those whom he loves. This, to me, is the ultimately heroic trait of ordinary people. They say “no” to the tyrant and they calmly take the consequences of this resistance. Their deeds may be small, and almost always unnoticed, unmarked by history. Their names are not remembered, nor did these authentic humans expect their names to be remembered. I see their authenticity in an odd way: not in their willingness to perform great heroic deeds, but in their quiet refusals to commit villainies. In essence, they cannot be compelled to be what they are not.
Philip K. Dick (1928-1982) American writer
Speech (1978) “How To Build A Universe That Doesn’t Fall Apart Two Days Later”Sourcing, notes: wist.info/dick-philip-k/39294/
#quote #quotes #quotation #authenticity #civildisobedience #evil #heroism #humannature #humanity #ordinarypeople #rebellion #resistance #self-actualization #tyranny #virtue #wrongdoing
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A quotation from Thoreau, Henry David:
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Do what you love. Know your own bone; gnaw at it, bury it, unearth it, and gnaw it still. Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life so. Aim above morality. Be not simply good, be good for something.
»Full quote, sourcing, notes:
https://wist.info/thoreau-henry-david/72667/#quote #quotes #quotation #action #deeds #engagement #fulfilment #meaningoflife #selfactualization #usefulness #utility #wisdom
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Imagine being the mother of children ages 3 and 5 and the cofounder of a tech startup with your husband, then happening across a billing statement for your mobile phones with hundreds of text messages revealing an affair between your husband and the 25-year-old nanny who watches your kids.
That story sticks with me today, from the speaker I introduced last night.
There are all kinds of "human factors" that affect our performance in our work.
She's turned lemons into lemonade, and shows us how we can do our best work by being our best selves.
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Imagine being the mother of children ages 3 and 5 and the cofounder of a tech startup with your husband, then happening across a billing statement for your mobile phones with hundreds of text messages revealing an affair between your husband and the 25-year-old nanny who watches your kids.
That story sticks with me today, from the speaker I introduced last night.
There are all kinds of "human factors" that affect our performance in our work.
She's turned lemons into lemonade, and shows us how we can do our best work by being our best selves.
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A quotation from Nietzsche, Friedrich:
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What does your conscience say? You should become who you are.
[Was sagt dein Gewissen? — „Du sollst der werden, der du bist.”]
»Full quote, sourcing, notes:
https://wist.info/nietzsche-friedrich/72202/#quote #quotes #quotation #conscience #identity #imperative #mind #selfactualization
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I have always separated my sexual identity from everything else, hiding the #nsfw parts of myself. I feel like this is born out of shame and conservative conditioning. Maybe I am just not for this world, but I feel like I shouldn’t have to compartmentalize different aspects of myself in order to be respected and treated fairly, even if those aspects are sexual and explicit. #sexpositivity #selfactualization
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I just had a minor #major #revelation about my anxiety around Sundays. I always dread reaching the middle of the day, because then I have to start thinking about Monday coming up. The 'end of the fun' so to speak.
The revelation is that the world ( well parts of it ) want you to always feel anxious, off-base, wanting, and perpetually unhappy. Why? So they can sell you stuff! If you are unhappy with your appearance, you'll buy cosmetics and clothes, if you are unhappy with your house or car you'll buy appliances and ... car stuff.
Also, your work wants you to know that you are only there because of the kindness of their hearts to pay you. You are replaceable in a heartbeat - regardless of how great you did that last code checkin, or engineering report.
You've got bills to pay and kids to feed, and bread to win. You cannot rest, or spend time for "yourself" because that's a "waste".
So, naturally during this "weekend" where you are spending "down time" you are going to feel guilty. If you aren't optimizing for maximum output or doing all those chores you put off to today you must be 'failing' at life right?
WRONG
WRONG
WRONG
You gotta deprogram that external pressure to always be 'doing' something. You are an astoundingly miraculous creation of space and time and physics and chemistry and spirit and wonder. The world wants you to be so busy and heads down that you never look up to see the clouds or appreciate the birdsong.
THATS NOT LIVING.
That's being 'productive'.
Instead, you need to listen to that quiet inner voice that's frankly gotten hoarse trying to convince you to turn off the distractions, go for a quiet walk, and listen to your own spirit. When was the last time you did something, just for the heck of it? Read a magazine. Play with ... gasp ... toys?
#selfcare #selfactualization #anxiety #depression #capitalism
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My favorite song is "Escapade" by Janet Jackson. That may be surprising considering it's not the most intellectually stimulating song in the world 😅, but every time I hear those opening notes it puts a smile on my face. 😊
This line in particular gets my attention every time I hear it.
"We'll make the rules up as we go along, and break them all, if we're not having fun"
My mom used to always talk about "rules." When she was judgmental toward people she would say, "they think the rules don't apply to them." When she left us home alone she'd say "you know the rules." (And to be honest, I'm actually not sure what those rules were, other than 'take no action she will notice when she gets home.')
The truth is, rules are made up by people who feel like they have the right to put bounds around our behavior. Whether we agree they have that right is irrelevant - they believe they have it all the same. A part of self-actualizing is excavating our own "rules" regardless of the ones authorities are motivated to enforce. The only truly universal "rules" are the laws of physics.
So I encourage all of us to make the rules up as we go along, and break them all if we're not having fun. We can prioritize our health and our joy, and experiment. Try different shit. If it doesn't work, try different shit. Rules are tools. And tools that don't work can be fixed or replaced.
And hopefully, as we continue to evolve as a global community, we can expand that mentality to a global scale. 💔🩹💖
#decolonization #selfactualization #janetjackson #traumahealing
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The top 3 challenges that people face:
＊How to prepare for the worst?
＊How to prepare for #selfactualization ?
＊How to prepare for transcendence?
Here is the take on #mindset from Joe Templin in this ep. of Growth Hacking #Culture 👉 full ep. https://youtu.be/SfVYtZxbztg -
The Problem with Introductions
As a first post it seems fitting that I tell you a little about who I am and why I think you should read my blog. I suppose another way of saying that is why should you care that I am here and have created this blog….
The first part of that is easy enough to answer. My name is Michael and I am a Clinical Psychologist. I have been in practice as a psychologist for about ten years and for the five years before that I was a marriage and family therapist (MFT). So that means I have a lot of college debt…
Why am I here, creating this blog? That is a bit more of a story.
I have three sons, whom I adore, and they are all grown and off building their lives, but for years they made time to come over every Sunday for dinner. At those dinners we would talk and catch up, by going around the table and talking about what was new in their lives. They would often bring friends and girlfriends with them and I would do my best to incorporate everyone into the conversation. I am sure I traumatized a girlfriend or two as they were not expecting me to ask them what was new with them (often because this may have been our first meeting) but I wanted them to feel welcome at my table.
Over the years those conversations would include someone discussing some issue they were having in life and I would dispense my best fatherly advice. Some of that advice must have worked out because my sons have been telling me for years now I should start a blog. So in part that is why I am here. To follow my sons’ advice. I actually started writing the material which will become this blog in 2020 just prior to the pandemic and the world shutting down.
Another and perhaps larger reason for my being here is because over the past fifteen years of working as a psychologist I have noticed something about the reasons why people come to see me. Mostly what I noticed was that the people coming to see me all snuggled to one degree or another with the same issues and I thought if I could put some of that exploration process out into the universe in some form or another, maybe it could help someone. I am not so narcissist as to believe that this blog will answer all of everyone’s questions, but I suppose I am narcissistic enough to believe that maybe the things I post here will help someone to feel at least a little less like some kind of freak for wanting to schedule an appointment with a therapist.
I suppose my ultimate fantasy for this blog would be that it would be more of a dialogue than perhaps my limited understanding of how running a website will allow for but maybe not. I will eventually figure out how to let people send me emails/questions and I will attempt to answer them all with as much research based information as possible. I am also narcissistic enough to believe I can write this in a way which you will want to read but I suppose only time will tell about that.
In the end this may just be a hole in cyberspace that I scream into on a weekly basis. I suppose that will be fun too.
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The internet has been trying to convince you that you must "accomplish" something every day in order to validate your existence. Your existence is already valid and you are a bright, wonderous being who doesn't need to check some checkboxes every day to feel like you have justified living today.
Turn things around. When was the last time you just paused and listened, smelled, felt the world around you.
Tapping in to the source of who you really are, you may discover that it is radically different than the sum of the To Do list items you've created to make someone think you are valuable.
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My favorite #7hashtags :
1. #serendipity
2. #creativity
3. #spirituality
4. #inspiration
5. #beauty
6. #transcendence
7. #stoicismWhat are your favorite hashtags to follow ?
https://www.sloww.co/transcendence-maslow/ #maslow #SelfActualization
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https://www.goodtherapy.org/learn-about-therapy/issues/self-actualization/achieve "#SelfActualization is often defined as a state or process in which an individual reaches a state of #transcendence and fully realizes their #trueSelf.
HOW TO ACHIEVE SELF-ACTUALIZATION
Focus on the #present.
Live outside of yourself
Practice #introspection.
Be fiercely #authentic
Pursue what brings you #joy."https://bigthink.com/mind-brain/maslows-other-mistake-why-self-acutalization-is-harder-than-it-sounds/
Self-actualization is a great #goal, but how easy is it to actually reach?
"..the old advice #knowThyself. #Socrates #Maslow