A Psychological Success: Maslow Says Anyone Can Do This (Areté +1 #448)

Hi, this is Brian. Welcome back to another Arete plus one degree. One of the micro chapters from Arete. Activate your heroic potential. Let's get right to work. A Psychological Success. Maslow says anyone can do this. Abraham Maslow died of a heart attack on June 8, 1970. He was jogging. He was only 62 years old. As you can imagine, he left a lot of work undone in an extraordinary little book called Future Visions. We get an intimate glimpse into his thinking via a collection of his unpublished papers and private reflections. That book is one of my all time favorites. Check out the notes. In it, Maslow tells us, and I quote, anybody, any person whatsoever, under any circumstance whatsoever, can be a psychological success. At least one in the sense of doing the best that one can and doing fully what one can to be himself or herself and to accept the reality of himself or herself. End quote. That's our plus one degree. I don't care who you are or what you've done or what you're currently doing, you can be a psychological success right this second. How? Accept yourself, do the best you can, and do fully what you can. In other words, live with orite. Not someday, today.