Mature personality to Maslow

Maslow believed that such persons account for about 1% of the population and are an example of the most psychologically healthy and expressing the humanity of people.

1. A more adequate perception of reality, free from the influence of the actual needs, stereotypes, prejudice, interest in the unknown.

2. Adoption of themselves and others as they are, no artificial, predatory behavior and rejection of such conduct by others.

3. The spontaneous manifestations, simplicity and naturalness. Compliance with established rituals, traditions and ceremonies, but treat them with due sense of humor. This is not automatic and conscious conformity at the external behavior.

4. Business oriented. Such people are usually not busy themselves, and their vital task. Usually they align its activities with universal values ​​and tend to view it from the perspective of eternity, not of the moment. Therefore, they are to some extent philosophers.

5. The position of detachment in relation to many events. This helps them to carry relatively calm anxieties and be less susceptible to outside influences. They often tend to loneliness.

6. Autonomy and independence from the environment; stability under the influence of frustrating factors.
7. The freshness of perception: finding every time new in the already known.

8. Limit of experience, characterized by the disappearance of a sense of self-Ya

9. Sense of community with mankind as a whole.

10. Friendship with other self-actualizing people: a narrow circle of people with whom relations very deep. The absence of hostility in interpersonal interaction.

11. Democracy in the relationship. Willingness to learn from others.

12. Robust internal moral standards. A keen sense of right and wrong: focus on the goal and the means they always obey

13. "philosophical" sense of humor. Attitude with humor to life in general and to himself, but someone's inferiority or adversity never considered ridiculous.

14. Creativity does not depend on what the person is engaged, and is manifested in all his actions.

15. Critical attitude to the culture to which they belong: choose a good and reject the bad. Feel more representatives of humanity as a whole, rather than one culture.