So what 18+ US citizens aren't voting this year?

[Kasz216]

akuma587 said:

Kasz216 said:

akuma587 said:
Kaz is the king of the nitpickers.

It's just that a "Self Actualzied" person gives the impression that people are walking around all the time as self actualized.

When in reality this happens fairly rarely... even among people who others would now label as "self actualized" people.

Also it implies permanence and also any one need can be taken a way and such people could never self actualize again.

This is stuff that's often misswritten in textbooks all the time and leads to a lot of errors on what people said. 

Textbooks are useless when you could just as eaisly read their writings first hand.

It's been co-opted by so many people and scam artists that Maslows actual work in the subject hardly seems to matter anymore or is ever taught correctly.

Your right, I agree that few if any people ever actually reach a state of self-actualization.

But you are still the king of nitpickers ;)

 

 

But the point is... it's not really a state... so much as a feeling. 

Most people think of self actuizlation as "Hey i'm happy, life is gerat, and i don't want anything.  I don't really haven any complaints."

When in reality it's a step beyond... a euphoric state that usually doesn't last that long... one of those "feels connected with everything", "Feels god inside of you." type feelings.

That feels better then any drug could ever make you feel etc. 

Such a thing only being short lived and temporary because obviously if you stayed like that too long it'd just be outright dangerous.

Infact Maslow once suggested that Drugs were a good way to get to that self actulization point until he realized that while it got you there... it wasn't the same.

I forget his exact metaphor....

but to be website specific.

It's like beating a tough game on your own talent vs beating a  tough game with the help of cheat codes.

It's the same result... but one way is infinitly more satisfying.