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7 Traits of Self-Realized People According to Abraham Maslow

By Exploring Your Mind staff — 2018

Self-realized people have found the perfect balance between the “ideal self” and the “real self."

Read on exploringyourmind.com

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How to Unlock the Power of Purpose | Richard Leider | TEDxEdina

Imagine a pill that would aid cognitive decline, help prevent macroscopic stroke, aid sleep, and add 7 years to your life. How much would you pay for it? Would you take it? It turns out that pill is free, and it's available to all. It's called Purpose.

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Richard Leider
2015
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David Brooks: Should You Live for Your Résumé ... or Your Eulogy?

Within each of us are two selves, suggests David Brooks in this meditative short talk: the self who craves success, who builds a résumé, and the self who seeks connection, community, love—the values that make for a great eulogy. Can we balance these two selves? Perhaps, once we know them both.

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2014
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Warrior Goddess Training: Become the Woman You Are Meant to Be

It’s no secret that women today are juggling a lot. We now make up more than half the workforce in the United States and are busier than ever with partners, children, family, and friends, often putting the needs of others ahead of our own.

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HeatherAsh Amara, don Miguel Ruiz (foreword)
2014
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Martha Beck on Being Who We Are

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Martha Beck
2016
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The Book: On the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are

At the root of human conflict is our fundamental misunderstanding of who we are.

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Alan Watts
1989
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The Existentialist’s Survival Guide: How to Live Authentically in an Inauthentic Age

Soren Kierkegaard, Frederick Nietzsche, Jean-Paul Sartre, and other towering figures of existentialism grasped that human beings are, at heart, moody creatures, susceptible to an array of psychological setbacks, crises of faith, flights of fancy, and other emotional ups and downs.

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Gordon Marino
2019
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What ‘Don’t Ask Don’t Tell’ Means to this Gay Veteran | American Veteran

Janessa Goldbeck was an out, gay woman when she joined the Marines—but the “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” policy was still in place, forcing her to hide her true self from others. After its official repeal, Goldbeck was able to educate others about LGBTQ issues.

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2022
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We Went to a Support Group for Black People in America

Alzo Slade participates in an “Emotional Emancipation Circle,” an Afrocentric support group created by the Community Healing Network and the Association of Black Psychologists. It’s a safe space for Black people to share personal experiences with racism and to process racial trauma.

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2020
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Jonathan Van Ness: Honey, She’s an Onion with All Sorts of Layers

The ‘Queer Eye’ star and author of the new book ‘Over the Top’ wants to encourage people to be themselves, or like his mother always said, ‘bloom where you’re planted.’

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Jonathan Van Ness
2019
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Over the Top: My Story

Who gave Jonathan Van Ness permission to be the radiant human he is today? No one, honey. The truth is, it hasn’t always been gorgeous for this beacon of positivity and joy.

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Jonathan Van Ness
2025
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