Maslow’s self-actualization starts with self-awareness. — Maslow on sex Maslow’s original theory of human motivation (Maslow 1943) barely touches upon sex as a motivator, which is an obvious oversight, given the emphasis on lust as a motive in folklore, scandals, religious prohibitions, and human history. Maslow was not so shy in his earlier work, in which he painstaking interviewed…

Design for the top of Maslow’s Hierarchy, rather than the bottom — I’ve been organizing more of my writing around a new a concept that I call Self Actual Engineering. The term is a reference to the famous American psychologist Abraham Maslow, who described a theory of human motivation that placed something called “self actualization” at the top, as far back as…

And what will keep you going when it feels too hard. — Jordan Peterson has compiled a course called ‘Self-Authorship’ offered here https://www.selfauthoring.com/ that promises prompts to guide people thru the construction of the stories of their past, present, and ideal future lives. If the course does what it claims, then it will tap into the deep, human need for making sense…

Understanding your partner’s dominant relationship fear will help you decode their behavior. And your own. — According to the Attachment Theory of relationships, romantic commitments require a constant renegotiation between two competing existential fears: Fear of abandonment, and Fear of enmeshment. People who experienced abandonment trauma during childhood are more likely in adulthood to fear abandonment by their romantic partners.

The better you do, the more profitable you will be. — Introduction Although I teach Engineering Business Practices at Arizona State University, I also co-founded an ice bath start-up company called Morozko Forge, and it’s been keeping me Jason Stauffer and Adrienne Jezick pretty busy this week because we just had an experience that most entrepreneurs only dream of. Joe Rogan did…

Not until you know what you’re giving up. — Every organizational leader must concern themselves with the decisions made at all levels of their organization. Even the lowest paid employees, at the bottom of the organizational hierarchy, are making decisions that help shape the future of the organization. And because every decision is an irreversible commitment of resources, the…