While studying for my Psychology of Personality exam two weeks ago I came across the following guidelines on how to self-actualise by Maslow in my textbook which I thought would be interesting to share…
1. Experience things fully, vividly, selflessly. Throw yourself into the experiencing of something: concentrate on it fully; let it totally absorb you
2. Life is an ongoing process of choosing between safety (out of fear and need for defense) and risk (for the sake or progress and growth): make the growth choice “a dozen times a day”
3. Let the self emerge. Try to shut out external clues as to what you should think, feel, say and so on, and let your experience enable you to say what you truly feel
4. When in doubt, be honest. If you look onto yourself and are honest, you will also take responsibility; taking responsibility is self-actualising
5. Listen to your own tastes. Be prepared to be unpopular
6. Use your intelligence. Work to do well the things that you want to do, whether that means finger excercises at a keyboard; memorising the names of every bone, muscle, hormone, and so on in the human body; or learning how to finish wood so it looks and feels like silk
7. Make peak experiencing more likely: get rid of illusions and false notions; learn what you are not good at and what your potentialities are not
8. Find out who you are, what you are, what you like and don’t like, what is good and what is bad for you, where you are going, what your mission is. Opening yourself up to yourself in this way means identifying defenses - and then finding the courage to give them up
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