Transcend
The New Science of Self-Actualization
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Scott Barry Kaufman PhD
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Scott Barry Kaufman PhD
About this listen
A bold reimagining of Maslow's famous hierarchy of needs - and new insights for realizing your full potential and living your most creative, fulfilled, and connected life.
When psychologist Scott Barry Kaufman first discovered Maslow's unfinished theory of transcendence, sprinkled throughout a cache of unpublished journals, lectures, and essays, he felt a deep resonance with his own work and life. In this groundbreaking book, Kaufman picks up where Maslow left off, unraveling the mysteries of his unfinished theory, and integrating these ideas with the latest research on attachment, connection, creativity, love, purpose and other building blocks of a life well lived.
Kaufman's new hierarchy of needs provides a roadmap for finding purpose and fulfillment - not by striving for money, success, or "happiness," but by becoming the best version of ourselves, or what Maslow called self-actualization. While self-actualization is often thought of as a purely individual pursuit, Maslow believed that the full realization of potential requires a merging between self and the world. We don't have to choose either self-development or self-sacrifice, but at the highest level of human potential we show a deep integration of both. Transcend reveals this level of human potential that connects us not only to our highest creative potential, but also to one another.
With never-before-published insights and new research findings, along with exercises and opportunities to gain insight into your own unique personality, this empowering book is a manual for self-analysis and nurturing a deeper connection not only with our highest potential but also with the rest of humanity.
Includes a PDF of growth challenges to begin your personal journey, as well as seven principles for becoming a whole person.
PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying PDF will be available in your Audible Library along with the audio.
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What the critics say
“The concept of self-actualization and the transcendent values, which include justice, beauty, meaningfulness, and wholeness, provide a blueprint for a better world. This very well-written volume not only captures Maslow’s work but infuses it with the spirit of inspiration. This book is a major advance in psychology." (Aaron T. Beck, MD, University Professor Emeritus of Psychiatry, University of Pennsylvania)
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- Brent Lehmann
- 2022-06-28
Aspirational Inspiration
This has been one of the more inspiring books I’ve read recently. The author shares so many insights from current scientific understanding and ends with an aspirational call to live life well. This has been a theme for, so this book resonated deeply.
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- Just another Amazon shopper :)
- 2022-06-24
Read and read again …
I appreciate when the author reads their own work. In this case I find the gentle tones of SBK help to absorb the important and more clinical areas of the research.
His admiration for Maslow is well known but it comes through in this book through the many quotes and stories but the true beauty of the book is learning just how long, and by whom Self Actualization & Transcendence have been studied.
How do we, as a society of individuals keep missing it … but a single candle lights the cave.
After finishing the book I am headed back to the beginning to listen again - I’m happy with the choice to listen to it here and I think I will also gift myself with a hard copy of the book.
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