Self Actualization
Maslow believed we have a hierarchy of needs, beginning with
(a) basic needs for food, shelter, then
(b) needs for safety and security,
(c) needs for love and belonging,
(d) the need for self esteem, and
(e) the need for self-actualization.
We cannot meet the higher-order needs until the lower ones are met. A hungry or fearful person will not recognize yet their need for self actualization.





I had break the law. I had break the step. First, we have to get the basic needs. But i was wrong, i think that love can get thought everything. Before the safety and security.
I have to learn step by step, I think i was rush to get success. Nevermind, learn from mistake, but not twice.

Eight Ways To Self Actualize

Work towards meeting and satisfying the lower-order needs (food, shelter, then safety and security, then love and belonging, and then self esteem). Once you have done this, and I acknowledge that it may be difficult and time-consuming, you will be able to make progress with the following:

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 a moment-by-moment choice between safety (out of fear and need for defense) and risk (for the sake of progress and growth): Consciously make the growth choice many times a day.
3. Let your true self emerge. Try to go beyond socially-defined modes of thinking and feeling, let your inner experience tell you what you truly feel.
4. When in doubt, be honest. It may take some courage, but look honestly at yourself and take responsibility for who you are and what happens to you. Self-delusion is the enemy of self-actualization.
5. Listen to your own tastes. Be prepared to be unpopular if necessary.
6. Use your intelligence, work to do well the things you want to do, no matter how insignificant they seem.
7. Make peak experiencing more likely: get rid of illusions and false notions. Learn what you are good at and conversely what you are not good at.
8. Know yourself. Who are you, what are you, what is good and what is bad for you, where you are going, what is your mission? Opening yourself up to yourself in this way means recognising one’s defences--and then finding the courage to give them up.