ABRAHAM MASLOW: The Oracle of Self-Actualization

Self-actualization isn’t the end.

But self-actualization isn’t a delusion either.

It is none and both at the same time.

We can call it a mechanism.

It’s a mechanism that acts as a compass whenever the moral, intellectual and intuitive processes that orient us towards what is good for us are out of sync.

And this happens far too often.

The chaotic nature of reality leaves no room for alternatives.

But such an endeavor, regardless of how demanding it seems, can be within our reach.

Abraham Maslow knew that well.

The person who wants to be self-actualized believes that they are worthy of self-actualization.

And it is so because they make it so.

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[richardbentley]

Very impressively done and not in your native language. WOW. Validates the theme of the "perineal philosophy"--where everyone who takes this journey eventually comes to the same universal awareness. Self actualization, awareness, awakening, enlightenment, conscienceness, Atman, the Self, all facets of the Diamond, or the end goal of the journey. Thanks

[internationaldehati]

You are the most underrated psychology based youtube channel

[WilliamPTuffs]

The hierarchy of needs helped me organize my life back in 2017. Would recommend it to most of my friends. Great video!

[Jamse.]

You have inspired me to write. Whenever I watch your profound videos I take notice of your great command of language, and it inspires me. it makes me want to grow in writing and one day write like you.

[louellabelle]

This is a beautiful presentation. So well researched and inspiring. Thank you for encouraging us to continue searching.

[cobeejay]

as impressive as always. keep it up adrian

[imhypers]

Wow I love your detailed description and link to the transcript. Here are the 15 pillars!!

1. More efficient perception of reality and more comfortable relations with it (relationship with the known and especially unknown; lack of neuroticism)
2. Acceptance (self, others, nature) (stoicism, in the sense "they can take the frailties and sins, weaknesses, and evils of human nature in the same unquestioning spirit with which one accepts the characteristics of nature.”)
3. Spontaneity; Simplicity; Naturalness ("he wiII go through the ceremonies and rituals of convention with a good-humored shrug and with the best possible grace")
4. Problem-centering (vs. ego-centered, broad thinking vs. introspectively insecure)
5. The quality of detachment; The need for privacy (not anti-social but one is satisfied in isolation, enjoys alone time to dig deep)
6. Autonomy; Independence of culture and environment; Will; Active agents (osmosis between all these, the self-actualizing does not rely on extrinsic satisfactions, but intrinsic)
7. Continued freshness of appreciation (gratitude is a critical virtue)
8. Peak experiences (paradoxically, self-actualization is experienced as a loss of the self, aka self-transcendence) (transcend the ordinary in order to connect with the Sublime)
9. Gemeinschaftsgefühl (German word meaning "sense of community, " the capacity of the self-actualized human to develop a vision bigger than himself)
10. Interpersonal relations (“They are capable of more fusion, greater love, more perfect identification, more obliteration of the ego boundaries than other people would consider possible.”)
11. The democratic character structure (appreciate other's character over their social status or race or appearances)
12. Discrimination between means and ends, between good and evil (nothing is absolute, there is a spectrum of value, some ideas/positions/actions are more valuable than others)
13. Philosophical, unhostile sense of humor (humor that teaches a story, education in a more palatable form, akin to parables or fables, humor as philosophy)
14. Creativeness (Whatever one does can be done with a certain attitude, a certain creative spirit, a child-like creative insight)
15. Resistance to enculturation; The transcendence of any particular culture (non group-think, but not anti-social negativity towards culture)

[psychologyis]

Thank you for breaking this concept down in such an easily digestible and interesting way!

[guillermojimenezrojas]

Hi Adrian, thanks again for the interesting material, despite I am not a native English speaker I was able to understand much of the messsge. Thanks again and the best for all.

[nehemiahjessee]

I was once told by a potential suitor that my problem was that I loved everybody and therefore wasn't a good to be considered for a mate. This has me bewildered. Why I wondered ? And how I can fix this but ive realized its not my problem no matter the scapegoat he tried to make me out to be but it was his problem because he couldn't see that angle being good through his vanity and greed. I'm so thankful to have experienced a free loving mate in such a world full of vain imaginations.

[akinfiyinfoluwa]

Nice video. Have you tried Napoleon Bonaparte's ideas.

[ashutoshchakravarty]

I have drawn the hierarchy on the wall of my hostel room to remind me that I am a human

[WhirledPublishing]

Over 7, 000 views but less than 40 comments - that seems odd.

[louisdate]

Great video, too many commercials kill the flow

[howardjamespatterson]

The trail of tears ? The more I learn, the less I know . Fukasetsu ? The divine state of final emancipation is not a state of blank nothingness, nor is it a condition of inner extinction, it is rather the demesne of a positive conscious sense of eternal blessed expansion Paramahansa Yogananda )

[simarbagga]

Are you inspired by pursuit of wonder?

[filipkustudic]

Hello, can I ask you do you write by pen or on some device??

[soundsandmusic.]

Question, you said a person who wants to be self actualize believes they are worth self actualization, is it possible for someone to fall in self actualization unknowingly and not knowing whether he/she is worth such thing?