Sunday, September 2, 2012

Self-Actualization


Growth is important in the development of the human mind. Self-actualization is a part of this growth. Outside the normal human needs of survival, safety, belonging, and esteem, we need to be able to affectively witness growth. The text provides two examples of self-actualization, in the examples there is a wiser person giving someone that is in need of guidance the specific attention in order to see growth. Each person is seeing the growth, the first in them and the second in the person that they are guiding. The importance of self-actualization goes beyond just the individual. With examples such as, Mohandas Gandhi, Martin Luther King, Jr. Buddha, and Confucius, it is evident how self-actualization goes beyond the individual and where the importance lies in human growth. The difference one person can make in a city, society, or world is reliant on the person that seeks ultimate growth. Growth not only for themselves, but for everyone around them as well.

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