Has anyone here ever reached the top of Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs/Self Actualization?

[ForeverTipsy]

If so, how long were you there for? I don't think I've ever met anyone who would admit to being there.

Here's a definition:

Self-actualization, to Maslow, is the ability to become the best version of oneself. Maslow stated, “This tendency might be phrased as the desire to become more and more what one is, to become everything that one is capable of becoming.”

The most salient tip I can offer is this.

Seek to remove toxicity from your life - especially those who project negativity or seek to bring you down/hold you back.

Nah , I'm too westernised to reach those dizzying heights, see Maslows whitewashing of indigenous beliefs.

Before you can truly do this you need to know what it is about yourself which wanted those people in your life in the first place AND to feel compassion for them.

Self actualization is about so much more than having all the stuff and dumping people you don't like. It's about taking full responsibility and awareness for all aspects of yourself, not just the socially acceptable parts.

Yes it was a very white western perspective!

I still think back fondly to the day in 2004, chatting to a friend on MSN messenger, when he said he'd set up a Wi-Fi network in his house. I asked him why anyone would need such a thing, and actually typed the words, "it'll never catch on". Good times.

Maslow’s self-actualisation theory is incompatible with Christian doctrine, so as a Christian I wouldn’t be seeking to achieve this, no.

Nah, dump ‘em I say!

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I would have thought having religious beliefs would make the concept of transcendence easier to achieve

@MrTwatchester this is extremely cheesy and American but watch this Teens react to 90s internet advert, imagine having to advertise the internet seems ridiculous now it'll never catch on...

It's definitely easier that way!

The Lord Jesus Christ’s teaching on the saving of the “psychē” (translated soul, life etc) is very specific -

“Then Jesus said to His disciples, “If anyone desires to come after Me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow Me. For whoever desires to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for My sake will find it. For what profit is it to a man if he gains the whole world, and loses his own soul? Or what will a man give in exchange for his soul?”
Matthew 16:24-26

I always thought that Nelson Mandela was a good example of reaching true self actualisation.

Yes to this, it's so interesting to read where Maslow got (or stole) his ideas from. Also the importance of community is removed and there is no mention of the idea that we are all born self actualised. It's not a journey or a destination.

The only 'self help' I allow in my life!

Seek to remove toxicity from your life - especially those who project negativity or seek to bring you down/hold you back.

Unfortunately, sometimes this is impossible, because you need to deal with organisations like Social Services, the NHS, etc not for yourself; but for relatives - and they have statutory duties to them.

This was a fun watch - thank you! Will watch it with my teen and tween over the weekend (perhaps I should do a reaction video to the reaction video?!).

Thank you for this; just Googling and reading about the Blackfoot tribe.

Much prefer the diagram with the community and connection sections on it.

I'm now realising the implications of the traditional pyramid being designed by a white western man. And how some may interpret the highest point when viewed through a commercial and individual lens.

If the 'goal' is to feel connected and part of - and contributing to - a healthy community, then I reckon I may be there.

This. You never actually reach the point of actualisation , it is rather an aspiration of where you want to be.