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Self-Actualization
- Recap of Self-Actualization leads to Happiness point
- Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs, if you reach “Self Actualization” you satisfy that need and there are no more needs to realize, the only way to lose that happiness is to lose your Self Actualization, which is rather difficult.
- Self-Actualization = Life
- Self-Actualization is not Identity
- Common misconception.
- Identity = Teenage – Young Adult, more superficial
- What do I like? i.e. What do I wear? What do I listen to? What do I find attractive, etc...
- Our identities shape our external “face” to the world
- Story of the Math kid
- Kid reads a math book, thinks he knows everything to know about math. The kid knows a lot about math though, enough to get him through grade school. This is like identity.
- Kid goes to higher education and is posed a problem by a professor that he cannot solve, ego is shattered. He doesn't know everything.
- Slowly the kid begins to realize that being knowledgeable at math means knowing that you don't know. Every answer unearths new questions.
- Self-Actualization = Exploration of what it means to be You
- Self-Actualization is the realization that your identity is not the sum of who you are
- Self-Actualization is the Human Experience
- When one self-actualizes they explore what makes us human:
- Why do I love?
- Why do I think?
- Why do I enjoy what I enjoy?
- Etc...
- Human Experience = Life Purpose
- Religion is irrelevant in this, if you believe in a higher power, the higher power generally motivates self-improvement and understanding
- Without religion we are more “free” to choose our purpose, but the only purpose which makes sense for continuing life, which is what our species desires to do, is to continue to improve our world, and we do that by bettering ourselves.
- Tie continued Vlogs into Self-Actualization
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