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3 pages in length. The writer briefly discusses self-actualization and its impact upon dealing with other people and providing services. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
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establishes ones goals and priorities as a way to recognize the individual and provide a firm foundation upon which each person can tap into his own unique contributions within an
otherwise uniform environment. Through the duality of self-exploration and action, the student has taken two critical steps toward self-actualization, a concept that motivates human beings to strive for accomplishment
and realize their unmitigated capacity for fulfillment through such characteristics as self-acceptance; spontaneity, simplicity, naturalness; autonomy; peak experiences; interpersonal relations; democratic values and attitudes; creativity; imperfections; and values. Maslow
-- who believed "people are not controlled by mechanical forces (the stimuli and reinforcement forces of behaviorism) or unconscious instinctual impulses of psychoanalysis alone" (Henry, 2004, p. 199), implied that
to have self is to possess the awareness of ones being and the myriad components that comprise that being. Having a sense of self is to tangibly tap into
ones consciousness to a greater extent than merely by mechanical recognition; rather, it is to embrace the whole of ones place in the world, in time and in the broadest
capacity of the mind. There are many aspects of the self drawn from a number of different places - some physical, some emotional and some ethereal - whereby each
one has an impact upon the overall construction of human existence. The student can be sure he or she has a self by feeling a connection to something -
many things - that provide a sense of personal identity. Homeless people, for example, have an unstable self due to the absence of tangible and ethereal association with the
world around them; as social outcasts, they are disconnected from their human brethren at a deep-seated level. Who the student was in an earlier stage of life is a
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