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Scott Barry Kaufman first discovered Maslow's unfinished theory of transcendence sprinkled throughout a cache of unpublished journals, lectures, and essays, he felt a deep resonance with his work and life.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 fully realizing 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 to our highest creative potential and one another.
With never-before-published insights and new research findings, along with exercises and opportunities to gain insight into your unique personality, this empowering book is a manual for self-analysis and nurturing a more profound connection not only with our highest potential but also with the rest of humanity.
