Notes on Deliberate Creator Denial

When we repress fear, we also repress success . . .

Abraham Maslow said that self-actualization was “the full use and exploitation of talents, capacities, potentialities. ” (Motivation and Personality, p. 150). He didn’t see it as a static state but as an ongoing process in which one’s capacities are fully, creatively, and joyfully utilized.

I think of the self-actualizing individual not as an ordinary person with something added, but rather as the ordinary person with nothing taken away. The...