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2. What does it mean to be "fully
actualized?"

3. Maslow talked about this in his
hierarchy of needs.

4. At the bottom are things like food, sex,
etc.

5. Stuff we all can imagine without any
trouble.

6. But as you go further up the top, they
get more vague and much more
dependent on your own personal
definitions.

7. The very top is "Self Actualized."

8. I remember way back in university,
one teacher was telling us that you
had to go through the bottom levels to
get to the top levels.

9. And somebody asked of an example of
a "self-actualized" person.

10. One of the examples she gave was
Jesus.

11. And I immediately thought of Jesus
down at the lower levels getting his
freak on so he could move up the
pyramid.

12. I guess they left that stuff out of the
Bible.

13. Anyhow, I think most people have a bit
of a misconception of the top levels of
Uncle Maslow's pyramid.

14. We tend to think it's some kind of
"state of being."

15. That once we arrive, all we've go to do
is drink champagne and eat sushi off
naked girls (or guys).

16. But the problem is that would get
pretty boring, pretty quick.

17. Study after study shows that folks who
win lotteries tend to go nuts after the
initial thrill wears off.

18. Sure, we can all think of massive piles
of material goods that we WANT, but
what happens when we have them?

19. I suppose you could take handfuls of
pills and play video games all day, but
you'd self destruct pretty quickly.

20. Maybe being "self actualized" means
being fully congruent in the PURSUIT
of your goals, not in the getting them.

21. When you have something really big,
really important (to you) and it's just
out of reach.

22. Which means you're firing on all
cylinders, using all your skills (and
learning new ones) to get you closer.

23. Some famous guy once said, "A man's
reach should be beyond his grasp."

24. Meaning if you can get it with your
current level of skills and energy, it's
not big enough.

25. Maybe we humans need some kind of
a carrot out there to keep us moving
forward.

26. One that we create, and one that we
put out there.

27. Only when you focus on your own
dreams with laser like intensity, and
get busy, do you feel alive.

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