Maslow and Dabrowski: Two men famous for their knowledge in self development

In Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs, we learn much about the process of self actualization. In the process, there are more people who reach the middle levels, than those who go on to become more actualized.

Not everyone creates themselves equally. And yet, we also know it is not an equal and level playing field of resources and opportunities from which each person is born. We all come into the world under our own unique situations, influences, resources and historically relevant timing. 

What we do, with what we have been given, is a large factor, though definitely not the only factor, in the outcome and quality of our lives.

The measurement of the quality of our life, becomes more and more evident as time passes. For with each choice, we not only gain an outcome, but we also lose other outcomes in the process of choosing; what is called in economics as “opportunity costs”. 

Also, another excellent theory along the lines of self development, is Dabrowski’s Theory of Positive Disintegration.

Both Maslow and Dabrowski put forth useful theories that can be very helpful in the knowledge needed to keep progressing in life.