Abraham Maslow was an American Psychologist and has been someone that I've studied before throughout some of the psychology courses I've taken. He is best known for his theory of "Hierarchy of Needs" and is also considered the father of humanistic psychology.
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| Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs pyramid |
While doing some reading about Maslow, I find his theories so interesting, I came across his 8 Ways to Self-Actualize.
It basically describes 8 behaviors that lead to self actualization. I find these 8 to be really interesting and something that everyone, including myself, can apply to our everyday lives.
" *Concentration: Experience things fully, vividly, selflessly. Throw yourself into the experiencing of something: concentrate on it fully, let it totally absorb you.
* Growth Choices: Life is an ongoing process of choosing between safety (out of fear and need for defense) and risk (for the sake of progress and growth): Make the growth choice a dozen times a day.
* Self-Awareness: Let the self emerge. Try to shut out the external clues as to what you should think, feel, say, and so on, and let your experience enable you to say what you truly feel.
* Honesty: When in doubt, be honest. If you look into yourself and are honest, you will also take responsibility. Taking responsibility is self-actualizing.
* Judgement: Listen to your own tastes. Be prepared to be unpopular.
* Self-Development: Use your intelligence, work to do well the things you want to do, no matter how insignificant they seem to be.
* Peak Experiences: Make peak experiencing more likely: get rid of illusions and false notions. Learn what you are good at and what your potentialities are not.
* Lack of Ego Defenses: Find out who you are, what you are, what you like and don’t like, what is good and what is bad for you, where you are going, what your mission is. Opening yourself up to yourself in this way means identifying defenses - and then finding the courage to give them up. "
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