Self-fulfillment : Warrior Mind Podcast #209
This Warrior Mind Podcast is based on the post “Self-Actualization, Happiness and Success.” 
The purpose of this Warrior Mind Podcast is to make sure you understand the difference between success, self-actualization, self-fulfillment and happiness. And that seeking self-fulfillment before success is one of the little known mental strength strategies of peak performers.
In this session I’m going to use self-actualization and self-fulfillment interchangeably. I know there are subtle difference and for the purpose of this post just go with it OK
Self-actualization is the art of obtaining your full potential and realizing the joy of the self-fulfillment. This is a goal that we would all share if the world were truly a perfect place.
However, starting your own journey towards self-actualization is the best first step. We are, after all, responsible for the decisions and choices that we make for ourselves.
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What exactly is self-actualization? Located at the peak of Abraham Maslow’s hierarchy, he described this high-level need in the following way:
“What a man can be, he must be. This need we may call self-actualization…It refers to the desire for self-fulfillment, namely, to the tendency for him to become actualized in what he is potentially. This tendency might be phrased as the desire to become more and more what one is, to become everything that one is capable of becoming.”
Self-actualization is a term that has been used in various psychology theories, often in slightly different ways. The term was originally introduced by the organismic theorist Kurt Goldstein for the motive to realize one’s full potential.
Expressing one’s creativity, quest for spiritual enlightenment, pursuit of knowledge, and the desire to give to society are examples of self-actualization.
In Goldstein’s view, it is the organism’s master motive, the only real motive: “the tendency to actualize itself as fully as possible is the basic drive… the drive of self-actualization.”
Carl Rogers similarly wrote of “the curative force in psychotherapy – man’s tendency to actualize himself, to become his potentialities… to express and activate all the capacities of the organism.”
The concept was brought most fully to prominence in Abraham Maslow’s hierarchy of needs theory as the final level of psychological development that can be achieved when all basic and mental needs are essentially fulfilled and the “actualization” of the full personal potential takes place, although he adapted this viewpoint later on in life, and saw it more flexibly.
Self-actualization can be seen as similar to words and concepts such as self-discovery, self-reflection, self-realization and self-exploration.
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