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“Abe Maslow was unhappy with what happened with many people when they read what he wrote about ‘self-actualizing people’. What they did with it was very strange. I have received a fair number of letters saying ‘I am a self-actualized person’. Maslow said that he must have left something out. Fritz (Perls) put it in. He saw that most people actualized a self-concept. This is not self-actualizing.”

Barry Stevens

Pulled from Wikipedia page on Self-actualisation, original source: Stevens, B. (1975): Body Work, in: Stevens, J.O., (ed.): gestalt is. Moab, Utah, 1975 (Real People Press), p. 183/184.

Old Man In Nursing Home Reacts To Hearing Music From His Era (by ncaavideos2)

Source: http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=mind-in-pictures-january-12

@Bob_Woody RE: Is “good art” defined more by the quality of a piece’s construction, or by the magnitude of its impact on an audience?

The first advertising campaign for non-human primates

The objective, says Olwell, is to see if advertising can make brown capuchins change their behaviour.

“We really had to strip out any hip and current thinking and get to the absolute core of what is advertising.”

One billboard shows a graphic shot of a female monkey with her genitals exposed, alongside the brand A logo. The other shows the alpha male of the capuchin troop associated with brand A.

See full article here