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Human Optimization

August 5, 2015

Human optimization

Erikson’s psychological dichotomies end with “integrity vs. despair” in which one discovers a sense of life’s meaning. World leaders such as Mahatma Gandhi and Nelson Mandela led as individuals living a life of self actualization. The lived a life of optimal function as human beings. Separate from religion and religious practices, this final state of…

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