Self-Actualizers Trait Number One:
“Efficent Perception Of Reality. Perhaps the most universal characteristic of these superior people is their unusual ability to perceive other people correctly and efficiently, to see reality as it is, rather than as they wish it to be. They have a better perception of reality and more comfortable relations with it. They are less emotional and more objective about their perceptions; they do not allow their desires and hopes to distort their observations. Because of their superior perception, self-actualizing people are more readily able to detect the fake, the phony and the dishonest in others. Maslow discvoered that this ability to see more efficiently extended to many other areas of life, including art, music, science, politics and philosophy. For example; an informal survey indicated that self-actualizers are more accurate in their predictions of future events. Self actualizers are really “with it” in a profound sense; they are realists. The self-actualizer isable to tolerate ambiguity and uncertainity more easily than others. She is generally unthreatened and unfrightened by the unknown. She accepts it, is comfortable with it and often is even more attracted by it than the known.”
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