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Is a Biological Driver Behind the Need for Self-Fulfillment?

posted by Fnord666 on Friday July 14 2017, @05:03PM   Printer-friendly
from the I-see dept.

AnonTechie writes:

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?

[Abstract]: Individual Perceptions of Self-Actualization: What Functional Motives Are Linked to Fulfilling One's Full Potential?

How would you go about achieving self-actualization ? Is self-actualization a relevant goal in this day and age ?

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  • (Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 14 2017, @08:37PM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 14 2017, @08:37PM (#539320)

    I really hope that is a bunch of satire. "Beating everyone else" jeebus sweet mohammed christ

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  • (Score: 1, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday July 15 2017, @01:56AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday July 15 2017, @01:56AM (#539431)

    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!!!