It isn't normal to know what we want. It is a rare and difficult psychological achievement.
Interpretation
Understanding our true desires is challenging and uncommon.
Abraham Maslow highlights the complexity of self-awareness and the difficulty individuals face in identifying their true wants and needs. He suggests that this clarity of purpose is not merely a common skill but a significant psychological milestone that requires introspection and self-discovery.
In practice
In a motivational speech, one might say, 'As Maslow pointed out, knowing what we want in life is a rare achievement, so take the time to really discover your passions.'
It looks as if there were a single ultimate goal for mankind, a far goal toward which all persons strive. This is called variously by different authors self-actualization, self-realization, integration, psychological health, individuation, autonomy, creativity, productivity, but they all agree that this amounts to realizing the potentialities of the person, that is to say, becoming fully human, everything that person can be.
Dispassionate objectivity is itself a passion, for the real and for the truth.
The study of crippled, stunted, immature, and unhealthy specimens can yield only a cripple psychology and a cripple philosophy
Marriage is a school itself. Also, having children. Becoming a father changed my whole life. It taught me as if by revelation.
It seems that the necessary thing to do is not to fear mistakes, to plunge in, to do the best that one can, hoping to learn enough from blunders to correct them eventually.
I was awfully curious to find out why I didn't go insane.
Imagination though it cannot wipe out the sting of remorse can instruct the mind in its proper uses.
I am poor and naked, but I am the chief of the nation. We do not want riches but we do want to train our children right. Riches would do us no good. We could not take them with us to the other world. We do not want riches. We want peace and love.
Envy is the tax which all distinction must pay.
Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning.
I have no disciples, being myself an aspirant after discipleship and in search of a guru.
BELOVED, gaze in thine own heart, The holy tree is growing there.
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