Self actualizing person's life is governed by B-values (being value). From a detailed study to 48 eminent actualizers and other informal obsercvation of not-so-known actualizer, here are the following characteristics of self-actualizers:
- perceive reality accurately and fully
- demonstrate a greater acceptance of themselves, others and of nature in general
- exhibit spontaneity, simplicity and naturalness
- tend to be concerned with problems raher than with themselves
- have a quality of detachment and a need for privacy
- are autonomous and therefore, tend to be independent of their environment and culture
- exhibit a continued freshness of appreciation
- have periodic mystic or peak experiences
- tend to identify with all mankind
- develop deep interpersonal relations with only a few individuals
- tend to accept democratic values
- have a strong ethical sense
- have a well developed unhostile sense of humour
- are creative
- resist enculturation.
Self actualizing people were not perfect human being. To be self actualized ones need certain environmental conditions like freedom of speech, freedom to do what one wants to do as long as it harm no one else, freedom for enquiry, freedom to defend oneself, order, justice, fairness, honesty and challenge.
~Abraham Maslow, 1971~
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