Self-Actualization Needs (Level 5)

• SELF- ACTUALIZATION: the innate human motivation to ACHIEVE OUR POTENTIAL by using and developing our talents and abilities. Each time we experience such a sense of fulfillment is called a PEAK EXPERIENCE. 
• In order to reach Self- Actualization, we have to satisfy lower “needs” that ...

Self-actualization is the realization of one's uniquely creative, intellectual, or social potential. It is a very personal experience.

When their need for self-esteem is fulfilled, where they have accepted themselves for the good and the bad, people move on to self-actualization.

The hierarchy of need suggests that people are motivated to pursue increasingly complex needs. 

Once more basic needs are fulfilled, people are then motivated by more psychological and emotional needs.

At the peak of the hierarchy is the need for self-actualiz...