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Actualizations: You Don’t Have to Rehearse to Be Yourself

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By Stewart Emery — 1978

Stewart Emery was one of the first people to lead EST training, and one of the founders of Actualizations, a supportive and loving workshop that helps people establish joyful relationships in their lives. See more...

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Why My 4.0 at Harvard Was a Failure

Just because something is a failure does not mean that you are a failure. Only through failure does anyone find growth. If you never make mistakes, you will never become better.

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Karen Johnson: Being Human Is a Development

At her SAND 2018 appearance, Karen Johnson, co-founder of the Diamond Approach, reminds us that “human” comes from humus, the earth, and “being” is what we feel meaningless without. We feel both these to be real, to be who we are.

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Against Persuasion

Philosophers aren’t the only ones who love wisdom. Everyone, philosopher or not, loves her own wisdom: the wisdom she has or takes herself to have. What distinguishes the philosopher is loving the wisdom she doesn’t have.

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Abraham Maslow and the Psychology of Self-Actualization

In this video, we explore what it means to self-actualize and examine why most people struggle at this all-important task.

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20:28

Andrew Solomon: How the Worst Moments in Our Lives Make Us Who We Are

Writer Andrew Solomon has spent his career telling stories of the hardships of others. Now he turns inward, bringing us into a childhood of struggle, while also spinning tales of the courageous people he’s met in the years since.

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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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A 12-Step Guide to Finding More Meaning in Life

Former monk Jay Shetty reveals a dozen ways to achieve a more fulfilling, happy and meaningful day-to-day life.

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Marcus Aurelius: How to Wake Up Early (Stoicism)

In this video we will be talking about 10 important insights for waking up early from the writings of Marcus Aurelius. He was also a devout student of the philosophy of Stoicism.

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Viktor Frankl: Self-Actualization Is Not the Goal

In one of his final television interviews Viennese psychiatrist Viktor Frankl, author of "Man's Search for Meaning" explains how Logo therapy's concepts of meaning and self-transcendence contrast the deterministic views of modern psychotherapy.

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