as in self-actualization
the act of achieving the full development of your abilities and talents
Work is often a means of self-realization.
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Recent Examples of self-realization
In the below essay, accompanied by his own photography, Radclyffe shares how riding a bike proved to be a powerful catalyst in his journey of self-realization.
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Oliver Radclyffe, Them, 17 Sep. 2024
The book’s alternate realities abound with traps and secrets that trouble the main character’s quest for self-realization.
—Stephen Kearse, The Atlantic, 6 Sep. 2024
Harris is remaking the sense of freedom from the negative freedom of overcoming constraints to the positive freedom of self-realization and achievement.
—Richard Stengel, TIME, 17 Aug. 2024
The leadership-in-flow model focuses on activating your inner core—your best self—by tapping into five energies: purpose, wisdom, growth, love, and self-realization.
—Hitendra Wadhwa, Harvard Business Review, 17 Feb. 2024
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Oliver Radclyffe, Them, 17 Sep. 2024
The book’s alternate realities abound with traps and secrets that trouble the main character’s quest for self-realization.
—Stephen Kearse, The Atlantic, 6 Sep. 2024
Harris is remaking the sense of freedom from the negative freedom of overcoming constraints to the positive freedom of self-realization and achievement.
—Richard Stengel, TIME, 17 Aug. 2024
The leadership-in-flow model focuses on activating your inner core—your best self—by tapping into five energies: purpose, wisdom, growth, love, and self-realization.
—Hitendra Wadhwa, Harvard Business Review, 17 Feb. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for self-realization
- self-discovery
- self-fulfillment
- meditation
- self-exploration
- introspection
- contemplation
- self-reflection
- soul-searching
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Your heart is going through a phase of self-discovery.—
USA TODAY,
USA TODAY,
22 Mar. 2025
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Michelle's and Dorothy's journey of self-discovery do share a remarkable verisimilitude if studied at a relative distance.—
Jeff Spry,
Space.com,
21 Mar. 2025
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These cultures tend to view divorce as a justifiable and often necessary step toward self-fulfillment.—
Mark Travers,
Forbes,
16 Mar. 2025
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This is Mascaro’s most humane film to date, which isn’t to say that August Winds and Neon Bull weren’t also grounded in the individual’s struggle for self-fulfillment outside the strictures of bourgeois circumscribed society.—
Jay D. Weissberg,
Deadline,
18 Feb. 2025
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While Pasolini delivers his meditations to clergy members gathered at the Vatican, the pope listens from his hospital room, though the attendees cannot see or hear him.—
Faisal Kutty,
Newsweek,
11 Mar. 2025
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Practicing mindful breathing meditation, although research on its effectiveness in improving executive functions is mixed.—
Dominique Fluker,
Essence,
10 Mar. 2025
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The affair becomes a misguided attempt at self-exploration, a way to recapture freedom, desirability or excitement that seems absent in daily life.—
Mark Travers,
Forbes,
23 Feb. 2025
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Psychedelics and Personal Growth Beyond their therapeutic applications, psychedelics are also gaining recognition as tools for personal growth, self-exploration, and spiritual development.—
Matt Rozo,
The Mercury News,
7 Jan. 2025
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Leaders who have gone through introspection and self-inquiry are unaffected by emotional turbulence.—
Carlo Tortora Brayda,
Forbes,
6 Mar. 2025
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Despite being a month of introspection and reflection, March’s astrology will bring emphasis to your sixth house of daily routines, work habits and more importantly, your well-being.—
Valerie Mesa,
People.com,
1 Mar. 2025
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And, where many other Stoic writers suggest seeking the divine through contemplation of the stars or natural landscapes, Pliny does the same with bugs and grubs.—
Livia Gershon,
JSTOR Daily,
5 Mar. 2025
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In the weeks before the election, former President Barack Obama gave moral sermons and philosophical treatises on behalf of the Harris-Walz campaign, his speeches suggesting that politics still existed in a social atmosphere of contemplation and debate.—
Brady Brickner-Wood,
The New Yorker,
5 Feb. 2025
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For more details on the advancing realm of AI self-reflection, see my discussion at the link here.—
Lance Eliot,
Forbes,
12 Mar. 2025
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Tom Schwartz pays a visit to The Valley, too, and Jax does some self-reflection with his former Vanderpump Rules costar.—
Dana Rose Falcone,
People.com,
11 Mar. 2025
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Bottom line: Democrats remain in soul-searching mode ahead of 2026, but at least two of the Bay State's more vocal Trump critics are sharpening their messages in the hope that local and national voters will swing back blue.—
Mike Deehan,
Axios,
12 Mar. 2025
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The challenges have spurred soul-searching within the industry.—
Liang Lei,
CNBC,
26 Feb. 2025
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“Self-realization.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/self-realization. Accessed 26 Mar. 2025.
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