Characteristics of self-actualizers

  According to Maslow, people who are self actualised, were

1) Reality-centered, which means they could differentiate what is fake and dishonest from what is real and genuine.

2) Problem-centered, meaning they treated life’s difficulties as problems demanding solutions, not as personal troubles to be railed at or surrendered to.

3) Had a different perception of means and ends. They felt that the ends do not necessarily justify the means, that the means could be ends themselves, and that the means, that is the journey was often more important than the ends.

4) Had different ways of relating to others. First, they enjoyed solitude, and were comfortable being alone. And they enjoyed deeper personal relations with a few close friends and family members, rather than more shallow relationships with many people.

5) Enjoyed autonomy, a relative independence from physical and social needs.

6) Resisted enculturation, that is, they were not susceptible to social pressure to be “well adjusted” or to “fit in” . They were, in fact, nonconformists in the best sense.

7) Had an unhostile sense of humor. They preferred to joke at their own expense, or at the human condition, and never directing their humor at others.

8) Had a quality of acceptance of self and others, by which he meant that these people would be more likely to take you as you are than try to change you into what they thought you should be. This same acceptance applied to their attitudes towards themselves: If some quality of theirs wasn’t harmful, they let it be, even enjoying it as a personal quirk.

9) They were often strongly motivated to change negative qualities in themselves that could be changed.

10) They possessed qualities such as spontaneity and simplicity.

11) They preferred being themselves rather than being pretentious or artificial.

12) They had a sense of humility and respect towards others — something Maslow also called democratic value.

13) They had a quality Maslow called human kinship, that is social interest, compassion, and humanity.

14) Were strong in their ethical behaviours.

15) They were spiritual but never conventionally religious in nature.

16) They had a certain freshness of appreciation, an ability to see things, even ordinary things, with wonder.

17) They had the ability to be creative, inventive, and original.

18) They tended to have more peak experiences than the average person. A peak experience is one that takes you out of yourself, that makes you feel very tiny, or very large, to some extent one with life or nature or God. It gives you a feeling of being a part of the infinite and the eternal. These experiences tend to leave their mark on a person, change them for the better, and many people actively seek them out. They are also called mystical experiences, and are an important part of many religious and philosophical traditions.

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