The Mission: Self-Actualization
I am slowly putting together longer-form ideas into some shape–maybe an artifact–and will share longer writings here (chapters) for paying members.
Self-actualization is being seen by the world, the way you see yourself.
Supposedly simple, but only on its surface. How does one know oneself? How can you put language on the different ways you are yourself?
Philosophy tells us you can reflect (self-report) based on prompts, seek understanding and data points, and look at a mental mirror. That is limited by a current faculty of being. You can’t see yourself outside the current form of being.
The shortest path to seeing ourselves in new ways is relationally (with others). When we talk to others, we don’t know what they’re going to say, and that fact alone invites the openness needed to say things we didn’t know we thought. One of the process goals of self-actualization is putting language on our intuition.