Dave Evans

And we think that's available all the time.

You know, you gave a quote just a minute ago.

I love this particular quote from Henry Miller.

So the American author and playwright Henry Miller once said, quote, I have a theory.

that the moment one gives close attention to anything, even a blade of grass, it becomes a mysterious, awesome, indescribably magnificent world in itself.

I have tried this experiment a thousand times, and I have never been disappointed.

So, you know, that's the habit of wonder.

So wonder is the place where we can move beyond ourselves, which, by the way, goes back to Maslow.

So late in his life, Maslow—and most people still think that the apex of the hierarchy of needs, according to Maslow, is self-actualization.

It's not.

The highest level is actually self-transcendency, which he came up with very late in his life.

He never published it.

It's in his personal journal notes.

Others published it behind him.

But interestingly enough, still, you know, 8 out of 10 people think it stops at self-actualization.

And self-transcendency, if attained, creates meaning-making.

So there's a difference.

And he's still wrong because he made it hierarchical.

And it turns out self-transcendency isn't hierarchical.

You don't have to be self-actualized to get there.