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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: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday July 15 2017, @02:29AM (1 child)
Isaac Newton's value to society endures.
(Score: 2) by Bot on Sunday July 16 2017, @07:06AM
No, his ideas maybe. Else we can argue about (godwin's in one) Hitler as the true father of the Israel state. One can even argue it is not unintended consequence, because he did not remotely implement the correct way of performing a genocide, the Armenian one, which German officials did witness firsthand as WWI allies of the Turks.
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