self-actualisation

A lot of Carl Jung’s career as a therapist was dedicated to the topic of self-actualisation for middle-aged adults.

The improvement to quality of life, health, friends, freedom, and opportunity for self-actualisation in general is profound.

Now how bad do you think it is for one's morale and self-actualisation?

I see no reason to take on faith that people acting out of self-actualisation would build a lesser technology.

If you're working 10 hour shifts with two kids and a tiny flat, you don't have much time or energy left to explore self-actualisation.

I don't care how rich some outlier becomes, so long as it isn't at the sacrifice of our own self-actualisation.

This is a great motto, probably a root of self-actualisation path.

A simplified version is this: It would be better if everyone was able to strive for self-actualisation[1] without the economic constraints that require people to work.

Can I be happy and find self-actualisation without this identity and financial status?

The whole thing reminds me of EST and a thousand other cults / self-improvement / self-actualisation groups that seem endemic to California ever since the 60s or before.

How about a society living for self-actualisation?

The pay off is growth, progress, self-actualisation.

You don't want to feel like you're being "handled" or used as a crutch for the manager's own self-actualisation.

Here's an analogy: it's like defining mental health as "not being sick." A lot of psychology has historically treated it this way, but then I read people like Victor Frankl, or look at the Self-Actualisation piece of Maslow's Hierarchy and I see health can mean connectedness, joy and many things that don't fit on a purely negative level.

Alternatively you could interpret American Idol as people spending one day a year pursuing an unlikely dream of lavish wealth before going back to the couch to see how the few contestants that made it through get on:) I'm not sure "practising for reality TV shows" falls into the category of self-actualisation I'm particularly keen to uproot the economy as we know it to fund.

Self-actualisation should be about doing the things that only you can.

Self-actualisation often leads to conflict.