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As human beings, what drives us to higher levels of existence? Once we have satisfied the basics - food, shelter, a mate, children - then what? For many it's the idea of self-actualization, or realizing our full potential. But what does self-actualization look like? How do we know when we are doing it? Researchers recently published a new series of studies on what people think it means to be self-actualized.
But what does self-actualization look like? How do we know when we are doing it? When are we trying to realize our highest potential? Self-actualization is a popular idea -- in psychology, business, education and the multi-million dollar self-help industry. Everyone, it seems, wants to realize his or her full potential.
[...] By finding mates, keeping mates and caring for children, people might feel self-actualized, and they might also be furthering exactly those biologically relevant outcomes that lead to getting their genes into next generations.
[...] Or as Krems explained: "For real people, pursuing self-actualization might further biologically relevant goals."
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2017/07/170712145639.htm
[Also Covered By]: Individual perceptions of self-actualization: What motivates fulfilling one's full potential?
How would you go about achieving self-actualization ? Is self-actualization a relevant goal in this day and age ?
(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 14 2017, @07:58PM (3 children)
I'm almost 43 years old. You might figure I could be having an existential crisis, given that I accept that procreation is all that matters.
Nope. I just accepted it. I live for it. My 11th kid will be born within a matter of weeks.
At this point, I'm beating almost everybody. I'm not even a polygamist, cheater, or sperm doner... but I'm beating most of them too!
Now, it could get painful for me once the wife goes infertile, but I can spend my time pestering my kids and their spouses to do their genetic duty. That'll be entertaining. Maybe I can sabotage birth control -- it is my genetic duty to do so.
(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 14 2017, @08:37PM (1 child)
I really hope that is a bunch of satire. "Beating everyone else" jeebus sweet mohammed christ
(Score: 1, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday July 15 2017, @01:56AM
Why hope it is satire? I'm making more smart kids; somebody ought to do it. There is no mohammed here. The wife and maybe 1/3 of the kids are Catholic, myself and maybe 2/3 of the kids are atheist. The wife is hard-core: every sperm is sacred.
I am in fact beating nearly everybody. Feel free to have an existential crisis yourself, with a bunch of Sartre. My children will inherit the Earth, ha, ha, ha!!!
(Score: 1) by Ethanol-fueled on Saturday July 15 2017, @12:05AM
Nice. My only hope is winning the lottery, assuming a fake name (I'm partial to "Juan Diego"), and going on a worldwide impregnation tour. And as the final stop of this tour, just in case, a Polynesian Island or barren African Nation where I can build a fortress, kill all the men, and spend a year or so impregnating all the women with just a few months to verify the results. It will be like Metal Gear Solid 5, and they will call me Mokele Mbembe.
I thought I had a lifetime accomplishment -- flipping off the Google Street View Car -- but those bastards are no longer blurring faces and middle-fingers like in the old days, but rather, using old footage for that one tiny slice of the city block. This is yet another instance of how the Jews keep the man down.