Is the journey to self-actualization really difficult?
When you think about self-actualization what do you think? What images come to mind when you think about self-actualization? Do you see someone sitting on a mountaintop practicing yoga? Do you envision Gandhi or King giving their lives to a bigger cause? What about this – do you think of yourself living the life you’re living right now? Are you self-actualized? How do you know if you’ve reached self-actualization? Does it depress you to think that you might be living at your full potential right now? And if you think there’s more possible for you, what does the pathway in front of you to self-actualization look like?
The purpose of these questions is to poke at our pre-conceived notions about self-actualization. What if I told you that the pathway to self-actualization was easy? Would you buy it? Why not? Why is it assumed that the pathway to self-actualization is hard and maybe even painful? Mind you, I’m not talking about avoiding pain. I’m just pointing to the assumptions that are already embedded in the concept “self-actualization.”
Learning to fly was hard for us until it wasn’t. Learning to build things and understand complex engineering equations was hard for us until it wasn’t. Understanding how to achieve self-actualization has historically been a difficult pathway, our teachers of the past have said it over and over again. The book, A Life Worth Living challenges, “Perhaps it’s time that self-actualization got easy.”
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