Context:
- this is from a comment in a YouTube video: Another trait shared by self-actualizers is their tendency to be free from the constricting need for social acceptance and the obsession many people have with social comparison. Rather than looking to others for approval or to social standards or “authorities” to determine how to live, such individuals defer matters of judgement to their own conscience. The French philosopher Montaigne, who exhibited this characteristic, captured it in the following line from his Essays: “I have my own laws and my own court to judge me, and I refer to these rather than elsewhere.” (Montaigne, Essays) Or as Maslow explains:
“Self-actualization have become strong enough to be independent of the good opinion of other people, or even their affection. The honours, the status, the rewards, the popularity, the prestige, and the love they can bestow must have become less important than self-development and inner growth.” (Abraham Maslow, Motivation and Personality)
“What is the real essence of life. You cannot find it in the books. You are the book. You gotta open up and begin to read and be conscious of what you have inside.” -Wim Hof
Thoughts
- I feel so in tune with this. That’s exactly how I feel and why I am comfortable doing things that aren’t socially acceptable
- Orbit, though it’s not giving me any monetary benefits, it is the reason I feel so fulfilled in the work that I’m doing
- which
- but I know there’s so many higher levels to reach. I am far from the peak.
- I think for that to be reached, I need to be around people on that same mission to feel a sense of belonging and actually create an impact on the world