Self-Actualization and Realization 101

Concepts

• Once a person becomes self-actualized, their motivation becomes unlimited. One cannot motivate another - but only set up an environment conducive to motivation.
• Maslow's Hierarchy of needs - physiological, security, social, esteem, and self-actualization
• Neuroplastic Sublimation - training the will to transcend Schopenhauer's precept that 'we can do what we will but we can't will what we will'
• Antifragility - growing from difficult situations
• Economic Sublimation - transition to enterprise models not founded on scarcity
• How to Read, How to Write
• Moral Intelligence driving intellectual and Emotional Intelligence
• Purpose - from Self-Determination Theory
• Self-Actualization - read about the topic in High Output Management by Andy Grove
• Self-Actualization vs Self-Realization
• Flow - like Csikszentmihalyi. Concept of Autotelic Character
• Art of Possibility - divergent thinking for an abundance mindset
• Genius - in that 98% of children are geniuses, but then it goes south as we 'grow
• Focus - from preparing the mind, visualizing, dreaming, journaling, reading-speaking-acting, creating an environment for a way of life, NLP, and other ways of learning to will what one wills

Assignment

Discuss how you would, if you could, approach the sublimation of problems, by taking some bothersome issue and going as deep into it as you can. 4-10 page paper.