What does the term "self-actualization" mean?
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"You guessed it. Selfactualization, self actualisation, and selfactualisation are all misspellings of Self-actualization. You would be amazed how easy it is to misspell it. \n\nBut, whether you spell it selfactualisation or selfactualization, the definition remains the same. Self actualisation is the act of doing what makes you feel fulfilled. This is not the same thing as personal growth or self improvement, both of which imply movement from a lower state to a higher state. Self-actualisation is the higher state. \n\nHere are just a couple definitions of selfactualization: \n\n"A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if he is to be at peace with himself. What a man can be, he must be. This is the need we may call self-actualization ... It refers to man's desire for fulfillment, namely to the tendency for him to become actually in what he is potentially: to become everything that one is capable of becoming ..."
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Self-Esteem is the level of personal value or self worth  persons possess internally and place towards themselves. This is influenced by how persons may perceive or conceive themselves to be, which is usually regarded as Self-Concept. Therefore, if persons have a negative self-concept, chances are that their level of self-esteem will be low and negative. Conversely, if persons possess a positive concept of themselves, the level of esteem towards themselves is more than likely to be high and positive.\n\nSometimes people make the mistake of interchanging the two terms. However, though they are interrelated and indeed contingent on the other, they refer to separate, distinct aspects of human personality and behaviour.
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People look to others do define them, because they don't know what they are nor who they are ... what they also do not know is that the people to which they are looking for their definition of self are as equally clueless themselves.  They don't know what they are, but we look to them to find out about ourselves.  This is a predictament.\n\nNow lets say that others tell us that we are fine and nifty, handsome and attractive, smart and fetching.  This would seem to be great, but it is not.  When everybody loves you, you brim with confidence and put on a smile, but now you must maintain that good opinion through work, work, and work.  You live for others approval, and are always looking for a way to keep people impressed.  This chore is impossible.  So, to keep people from finding out what you are really like, somebody in this position is always inviting people near with one hand while pushing them away with the other hand.  They want you to like them, but they also want you to only know the appearance of them that they are constantly managing ... not the real person underneath the happy exterior.  They live in nearly constant lying and use anger and intimidation to scare people away who get too close.  Maintaining your image is all there is.\n\nThe other side of the coin are those that are not MAINTAINING but trying to change their image.  They don't like the messages that others have used to describe them.  When they looked for identity, others told them they were ugly and silly, dumb and slow, easy and cheap, everything that added up to worthlessness.  The only hope for these people is to do something or be something that people will have no choice but to appreciate them for a change.  This is work, work and work, because you are always trying to improve.  Lying comes in almost as easily as above.  \n\nBoth paths have one thing in common ... darkness. \n\nDarkness is living behind an image, that is not truly who you are, and vesting yourself in the image.  No light gets to the real you, because that is hidden behind the fantasy you that you  are projecting for others. \n\nDarkness is vexing. \n\nThe answer is Light .... to know yourself authentically and truly.  And to then project nothing but exactly what you know yourself to be.  \n\nI walk in the Light.  Jesus is that Light.  My life is hidden in Him, who loved me and gave Himslef up for me.  ... He knows me, more then I know myself.  He knows me because He created me.  He is obsessed with me.  nobody knows me like He knows me ... and the same is true for you.\n\nYou can be loved ... warts and all.  You can lay down the mask and quit hiding in darkness.  Trade all your failure and weakness for His victory and strength.  \n\nHe is only a prayer away.
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There is a quote I remember my mother keeping on her desk when I was small - I don't remember who said it or even all of what it said, but one part stands out to this day:\n\n"Don't let the world define you, Define yourself."\n\nThat is the best advice I can give. You are in charge of your own character, your own individuality. You define yourself.
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if u will give a real deep analysis on all the symptoms and situations  that you mentioned, the bottomline of all these,  is self-love,  the use of defense mechanisms to preserve the ego.  Projection, Rationalization, Intellectualization...yes my friend, all exhibited because of actual or imagined fear of having their ego smashed into pieces.
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Conceited people thank that they are better than others not that they have more confidence ( they just see you as if you are beneath them that is why they appear to have confidence)  Self confidence means that you are who you are and know exactly what you can or can not do. Self confidence does not mean you are full of your self. WITH  self confidence you can walk the walk and talk the talk.  SO TO ANSWER YOUR QUESTION I WOULD HAVE TO DISAGREE.
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Be true to yourself. re-inventing ones self is something that happens in music videos.
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If you are interested in true self-realization and honest transformation I would suggest that you study the works of Paramahansa Yogananda. Yogananda was a Hindu sage that died in the 1950s after having taught extensively in the U.S. for decades. He taught metaphysics, and universal spiritual principles based on the teachings of Hinduism and also based on the teachings of Jesus. His books are written in an easy to understand language, you don't need a grand background in either metaphysics or theology to understand what he says. He was very down to earth, practical, and also right on the money. You can find info about him, his teachings, and the organization he founded (and it is still going strong) at the following URL. ~ Peace & Blessings ~
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yes.\nA sign of human self-maturity is the realization of the infinite potentialities of the self.  Just what religion seeks to repress in us.\nWhat religion SHOULD seek to do is help decide WHAT potentialities to manifest(i.e. avoid evil and do good...)
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An interpretation of something tells always more about the person who interprets (yourself) than about the object that is being interpreted. I bet you can also find some more positive anagrams.
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c. philosophy or self-expression
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It is the total unselfish giving of oneself to another, it is the commitment to witness someone's life with them.  It is being a peace with your self.  It is kind and prideless.  It is without question or doubt.  It just is. When you feel it you will get the point.
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Sure.  It is when you start to question who you are, what your purpose is, and what have you been doing all your life and what should you do with the rest of your life.\n\nIt can involve a crisis of meaning, where you feel a void of meaning in existence in general, or in your existence in particular.  This is the existential crisis.  Viktor Frankl has a marvelous book called Man's Search for Meaning in which he deals with this.\n\nAnyone can have an "identity crisis" when they are just not sure what their next step should be.  This can be small or huge.  It can be a major ordeal if one finds that he or she cannot relate to the teachings or beliefs that his or her culture/family hold.  If one sees problems in the beliefs held by all those around him or her, then one can feel lost as to who one is.  They have to rethink all they ever believed.\n\nSo much of our self-image is given to us by those around us, and as soon as we start to question what they have told us, we find ourselves at a loss as to who we are.\n\nThat, I think, is an identity crisis!
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It means reluctant to draw attention to yourself, but not necessarily critical of yourself.  Self-effacing is more like modest, not critical.
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UNDERSTANDING OTHERS THROUGH SELF\n\nTell me if this suits as the statement or not...
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i like the first answer. It sounds like they are commenting on how we are trained to hear religious dontorine and how people see it as this magic that will cure our lives in an instant,like a spell. Maybe what they are saying is that we need to break free from this pavlovian response to life and to view reality in the moment. that's my understanding. It's very poectic. Thank for the good question!
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Existentialism is a 20th-century philosophical movement that assumes that people are entirely free and thus responsible for what they make of themselves.\n\nExistentilist guilt would be feeling guily for failing to realize your own potential or live up to it.