If that's really true — and if I get to the end of the book and he's still never for one moment had a bit of grief over the cognitive dissonance between what he expected and what he got — then he's a lot more self-actualized than I am, and I tip my hat to him.
I hope my "targets" are much more self-actualized than I was.
Become a more self-actualized person.
As highlighted by the character Katniss Everdeen in the Suzanne Collins' books and corresponding movies, I speak of female figures who are in touch with their power, who are called upon to engage in battle in some way, but are, more importantly, showcased as actualized, assertive and brilliantly strategic.
We want to be self-actualized, we want more autonomy in what we do, we feel like technology sometimes gives us the tools to work the way we want to or when we want to.
There's something about a strong, self-actualized athlete that's more attractive than your everyday run-of-the-mill girl.
Maslow believed that everyone is capable of having peak experiences, but he believed that self-actualized persons have these experiences more often.
On the other hand, Aquinas took passions in the strict sense to involve change for the worse, and more generally, ranked passions with the passive and not fully actualized entities existing on the lower, degraded rungs of his ontological ladder.
Davidson, p. 84, sees Avicenna as limiting the intellect in habitu to knowledge of first intelligible thoughts, the fully actualized potentiality being attributed to an "actual intellect".
Self actualized people have a healthy relationship with reality and are more comfortable with it and do not deny it.
Is the 'name-brand' of your child's school truly more important than their ability to thrive there and are self-actualized enough to be able to fully develop their skills, interests and intellectual curiosity?
