self-actualize
Americanverb (used without object)
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Novelty can provide us with both fleeting moments of pleasure and a way to self-actualize certain parts of who we are or want to become.
From Salon ● Dec. 5, 2022
The directors suggested the experience of participating in the rescue helped you self-actualize.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 16, 2021
And actually you make it as hard as possible because you can’t self-actualize if you don’t have any self.
From Seattle Times ● Aug. 5, 2021
But for many of us, it’s really to self-actualize that we want to do something.
From The Verge ● May 4, 2021
“They raised the three of us to self-actualize, to do what we love and are passionate about,” says Lynn Tyson, an executive in investor relations.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 24, 2015
“I think of myself as an evolved and self-actualized woman,” she says with a laugh.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 18, 2025
They sound like so many of the tendencies that the internet is warning self-actualized go-getters against:
From Slate ● Dec. 1, 2023
The profession has lost is a fearless reporter who was more self-actualized than most journalists her age, current and former colleagues said.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 22, 2022
Ms. Zittel offers a model in A-Z West, her “Institute of Investigative Living” on 70 acres in Joshua Tree, Calif., that serves as a self-actualized art-in-the-desert fantasy.
From New York Times ● May 6, 2020
In contrast, “Oh, the Places You’ll Go,” a perennially popular graduation gift, features a chipper, self-actualized little white fellow who is definitely on the path to greatness:
From Washington Post ● Jan. 30, 2020
Nor, as it happens, in their ability to remind us of the self-actualizing power drag can have on even its most casual fans.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 13, 2023
Psychologists have found that authenticity in this self-actualizing sense improves well-being—it’s good for you.
From Slate ● Oct. 21, 2019
He constantly questions his own conciliatory behavior, to which he brings an air of self-actualizing apology.
From New York Times ● Oct. 14, 2019
That’s what I described first for self-actualizing people who are transcenders mostly, people in whom the basic-need gratification would automatically lead to the value system which implies also the Bodhisattva path.
From Scientific American ● Sep. 24, 2017
And even if they are objectively true, they are not self-actualizing.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 11, 2015
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